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.

  • July 10, 2021
  • Dr. Roopali Sircar Gaur
  • Poem

How to Teach a Frightened Boy?

An intense and powerful poem, by Dr. Roopali, about Bittoo’s battered mother and women wronged down the ages. An exclusive for Different Truths. How to teach that frightened boy ...
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  • June 28, 2021
  • Dr. Roopali Sircar Gaur
  • Poem

Surpanakha, the Demon of Desire

An intense, woman-centric poem, by Dr. Roopali, exclusively for Different Truths. For you alone the roasted yams and the lentils…. you have eaten enough, have you not eaten your husband  our...
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  • June 12, 2021
  • Dr. Roopali Sircar Gaur
  • Poem

Kanamma, the Mad Woman

Here is Dr. Roopali’s evocative and soulful poem, exclusively for Different Truths The large shady Bargad tree Its hard twisted tentacles  hanging low swinging free Medusa like just outside the temple...
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