Nandita Samanta

Nandita Samanta is a poet, an author, a reviewer, an artist. A parenting and relationship advisor, she is the secretary of Calcutta Creative Confluence, Cultural Convener & Literary Coordinator, ISISAR (W.B.) Her writings feature in many international / national anthologies, magazines, webzines, and journals. Many of her poems have been translated to different languages. Her poetry collections are, Scattered Moments (been translated into French and Bengali) and The Trapeze of the Mind (Kindle Edition).

March 8, 2025
Nandita Samanta
Poem

A Woman’s Wok-Place

Nandita pens a powerful woman-centric poem, dealing with drudgery, domestic violence and more, exclusively for Different Truths. Why do I often feel and see noise, instead of hearing? The...

February 7, 2018
Nandita Samanta
Poem

Remains of Love

An enigmatic poem about love and its loss by Nandita, for Different Truths. We have reached into the depths of a void plucked from the carnage of vestiges of...

November 28, 2017
Nandita Samanta
Poem

Ecstatic Dream

An intense sensuous poem by Nandita, in Different Truths. Creeping into the velvet darkness The hour of midnight comes falling softly Where wondrous dreams are created The memories start evoking my...

March 15, 2017
Nandita Samanta
Crime, Gender, Human Rights

How Purba, the Survivor, returned from a Journey to Hell?

Trafficking of women is an international commercial activity in which force, coercion, and fraud are used to transport women across international boundaries for economic gain. As a complex organised...

February 22, 2017
Nandita Samanta
Crime, Gender

Which Poison Killed Mandira: Murder Mystery of a Rape Victim – II

In the second and final part of the fictionalised true story of a rape victim, Aftermath, we find that the plot thickens. Mandira’s diary, found by her daughter, Ananya, convinces...

February 8, 2017
Nandita Samanta
Crime, Gender

Aftermath: Death Mystery of a Rape Victim-I

It’s sad that rape victims are victimised in India – and Southeast Asia. Nandita fictionalises a true incident, in two parts, showing the storms and turmoil within the rape...