Sharmila Ray is a poet and non-fiction essayist, writing in English and anthologized and featured in India and abroad. Her poems, and non fictional essays have appeared in various national and international magazines and journals.
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She is an Associate Professor of the Department of History at City College, Kolkata. She has authored eleven books of poetry. She has edited a bilingual anthology of American and Indian writers-Bridging Continents with Gopal Lahiri. She was on the English Board of Sahitya Akademi (National Body of Letters, Govt. of India), Conducted poetry workshops organized by British Council, Poetry Society of India, Sahitya Akademi. She has been reading her poems in India and abroad. Her poems have been translated into Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Slovene, Hebrew and Spanish and Uzbeck.
She has received many awards for poetry. She has been reading her poems in various National and International Poetry Festivals.
Pastries were an extension of my growing up years. Each colourful beauty got located in the experience and recollection of my childhood. Pastries, temptation soaked in contemplation…
The lemon tarts always got diffused and made me think of Klimnt’s Kiss. All yellow and dripping gold with spots of red… Van Gogh’s Peach Tree with violet trunk and clusters of white flowers took shape in the body of a pink pastry with a dollop of white cream. Chocolate truffles always reminded me of Rembrandt’s universe, a superb orchestration of earth colours-warm amber, ochre, sienna.
This then was my pastry-world rooting in the depths of my heart, a bridge across to something unthinkable, unimaginable. Believe me pastries could be gems buried in flour, egg and cream or Chinese lanterns hanging from Van Gogh’s Pear Tree or it could blur all formal representation,become lines and colours taking pride in Kandinisky’s canvas,
Pancham: The Urban Timbre (Part 3) The rich variety of song tracks showcased in the film surprised many. Rahul became a sort of ‘Chote Nawab’. Senior Burmans’ ‘Tublu’ became to all…
Bohag (Part 1) I should have put on the windcheater jacket before going out. A full-sleeve tee shirt wouldn’t have been bad either. The morning breeze in the…
Mythical Goddesses of Bengal Mythical goddesses of Bengal’s folklores, legends and the vernacular narratives, have always fascinated me. They are rooted to Bengal’s traditional rural moorings. Despite their ownnpersonal…
Bohag (Part 2) The performance came to an end in a while. Then followed a series of welcome speeches one after another, by the Chief Guest, the Guest…
Pancham: The Urban Timbre (Part 8) On October 31, 1975, Sachin Dev Burman passed away. He suffered a stroke while rehearsing a song with Kishore Kumar for Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s movie, Mili (1975). At…
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