Lopamudra Banerjee

Lopamudra Banerjee is a multi-talented author, poet, translator, and editor with eight published books and six anthologies in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. She has been a featured poet at Rice University, Houston (2019), ‘Life in Quarantine’, the Digital Humanities Archive of Stanford University, USA. Her recent translations include 'Bakul Katha: Tale of the Emancipated Woman' and 'The Bard and his Sister-in-law'.

December 21, 2021
Lopamudra Banerjee
Fiction, Short Story

Returning Home

Lopamudra pens an interesting story about two women, unrelated by blood, yet connected with memories. A Special Feature for the International Women’s Day, exclusively for Different Truths. I In...

November 29, 2021
Lopamudra Banerjee
Cinema, Criticism, Novel

Wuthering Heights: A Journey from the Novel to the Movie

Lopamudra revisits Emily Bronte’s novel, Wuthering Heights, and its various film adaptations. She likes the 1992 version of the movie. A critique, exclusively for Different Truths. A Gothic tale...

January 9, 2021
Lopamudra Banerjee
Gender, Relationship & Lifestyle

Patriarchy and the Female Gender: As I have Seen it

As a small girl, at her home, Lopamudra came face-to-face with patriarchy, red in tooth and claw. She reveals the stranglehold of male domination in a Bengali Brahmin family,...

February 17, 2020
Lopamudra Banerjee
Book Review, Criticism

Sabar Majhe Ami by Child Prodigy Sayan Mitra: Testimony to a Sensitive Psyche

December 29, 2016
Lopamudra Banerjee
Poem

Resurgence

A voice that cannot be stifled, a protest that breaks shackles is the poetic voice of Lopamudra. Her protest poem envisions change. Here’s her firebrand poem for Different Truths. Every single...

September 10, 2016
Lopamudra Banerjee
Poem

Born into Brothels: An Ode to Sonagachhi

This poem is Lopamudra’s poetic tribute to Sonagachhi, the red light area of Kolkata, and the children of the sex workers there. It’s a continuation of the series of poetic...

July 23, 2016
Lopamudra Banerjee
Poem

Prinsep Ghat

Lopamudra presents a series of prose-poems or short vignettes in blank verse based on certain long-standing images of Kolkata, and the US. Here’s the second one of the series, ‘Prinsep Ghat’, exclusively for...

July 16, 2016
Lopamudra Banerjee
Poem

College Street

Lopamudra presents a series of prose-poems or short vignettes in blank verse based on certain long-standing images of Kolkata, and the US. Here’s the first one of the series, ‘College Street’...

June 23, 2016
Lopamudra Banerjee
Poem

The Scab

An intense love poem by Lopamudra. Crush me like old dust between your palms, Let me burn in sulphur flames amid those burning grains. I want to die, the...

June 20, 2016
Lopamudra Banerjee
Poem

Sleep

An evocative verse for her muse by Lopamudra. Let my muse hide in his blanketed darkness. There are slumbers to attend to, Nourishment to tend to, Tastes to be...

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