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A Conversation With Kiriti Sengupta On Poetry, Translations, And Bengali English Poetry

Poet Kiriti Sengupta discusses with Professor Akshaya Kumar the multiplicity of truth, poetic style, and the Bengali English poetry scene, among other things.

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A Conversation between Akshaya Kumar and Kiriti Sengupta

Some tend to think that poetry has an obligation to strike a high octane and that it must attain some level of scriptural profundity. Some others tend to approach poetry as a discourse of engagement with ‘this’ life without any gloss.

USAWA Literary Review

How a Kolkata dentist-turned-poet responded to pandemic with poetry

For many years the light Sengupta was himself most familiar with was the one he shone into his patients’ mouths.

The Hindu

From “Masala Muri” to Flavored Muesli: A Conversation with Kiriti Sengupta

Colorado Review is pleased to publish Jhilam Chattaraj’s interview of poet, writer, and translator Kiriti Sengupta, winner of the 2018 Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize.

Colorado Review

OF THE BENGALI AIR AND ENGLISH INK: A CONVERSATION WITH KIRITI SENGUPTA

Congratulations on winning the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2018, for Healing Waters and Floating Lamps! The collection has been included in the uniquely structured poetic trilogy, Dreams of the Sacred and Ephemeral (2017).

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An Interview with Kiriti Sengupta: Global Dimension To Bengali Poetry

Kiriti Sengupta, a Dental Surgeon and graduate of the University of North Bengal is also the author of other bestselling titles: My Glass Of Wine, a novelette based on autobiographic poetry, and The Reverse Tree, a nonfictional memoir.

Fox Chase Review

“Poetry itself is pious!” – Kiriti Sengupta in a rendezvous with Jagari Mukherjee

Kiriti Sengupta is synonymous with innovation and novelty in the field of Indian poetry in English. The release of Hibiscus: poems that heal and empower (May 2020, Hawakal) is a case in point.

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‘Poets are self-motivated souls, poetry is compulsion’: Kiriti Sengupta

There are no wars to be won through poetry, no great intentions behind a poem’s composition and it is more of a compulsion for self-motivated souls than a mere hobby, says Kiriti Sengupta, a gifted Indian poet, who has more than 17 books of poetry to his credit.

The Indian Express

Student poets of Quills at RBVRR Women’s College: Bound by poetry

A chapbook by student poets of RBVRR Women’s College is inspired by the harsh realities of life

The Hindu

Deconstructive Stylistic Reading of Kiriti Sengupta’s Reflections on Salvation by Dr. Susanta Kumar Bardhan

Among the present practicing Indian English poets, Kiriti Sengupta occupies a unique position so far as the treatment of theme and technique are concerned.

Harbringer Asylum

Verses of elusive dreams

Kiriti Sengupta’s book tries to weave yarns of spiritual, real and surrealistic elements in one collection.

The dress of poetry is woven with metaphors. Removal of the same and replacing it with something else requires out-of-the-world courage in a poet and it’s only the maestroes who can do it.

The New Indian Express

Poems meant for healing in the middle of a pandemic

After writing 11 books of poetry, poet, translator and publisher Kiriti Sengupta decided to turn his eyes on creating a compilation of poems to combat this crucial time. That was how Hibiscus was brought together, consisting poems that are created to heal.

The Telegraph