Dr. Roopali Sircar Gaur

Dr. Roopali Sircar Gaur

Dr. Roopali Sircar Gaur is a poet, travel writer, and social justice activist. A former professor of English Literature at Delhi University, and a creative writing professor at IGNOU, she is a widely published academic and creative writer. Her book Twice Colonised: Women in African Literature, is a seminal text on women’s socio-political empowerment. In 2020-21, she co-edited two poetry anthologies – In All the Spaces: Diverse Voices in Global Women’s Poetry, and Earth Fire Water Wind.

  • November 15, 2021
  • Dr. Roopali Sircar Gaur
  • Poem

What Secrets do Gods Hide?

An intense, evocative protest poem, by Dr. Roopali, exclusively for Different Truths. Mysteries lie in chanting mantras These secret magic words! My baby tongue lisps making so many slips....
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  • September 28, 2021
  • Dr. Roopali Sircar Gaur
  • Poem

And Then This Shraadh

An evocative poem by Dr. Roopali about Pitrapaksha, when we pray, cook, and feed our ancestors, the patriarch’s ghosts that visit us, every year. The women-ghost perhaps are still...
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