Basudhara Roy
| Basudhara Roy | |
|---|---|
 Basudhara Roy.jpg Basudhara Roy in 2021 | |
| Born | 17 March 1986 Bokaro, Jharkhand |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Indian |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Banaras Hindu University |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Notable work | Moon in My Teacup (2019)
Migration of Hope (2019) Stitching a Home (2021) |
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Basudhara Roy is an Indian English poet and an assistant professor in the Department of English, Karim City College Jamshedpur. Born in 1986, Basudhara completed her graduation and post-graduation from Banaras Hindu University. She received the Merit Award for Excellence in Academics by the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund, New Delhi (2009) and joined Karim City College in 2010.[1] She debuted with the book Moon in My Teacup, a collection of poems, published by Writers Workshop India in 2009. Basudhara is one of the widely recognized poets and published her poetic and research works in multiple journals, magazines and portals such as Berfrois, Café Dissensus, The Aleph Review, Mad in Asia, Teesta Review, EKL Review, The Poetry Society of India, Muse India, and Setu. [2] [3] [4]
Works
In 2019, Basudhara introduced herself in the domain of Indian English Poetry through her work as a collection of 52 poems entitled Moon in My Teacup in 2019 published by Writer's Workshop India. [3] In the same year, the Atlantic Publishers released her book Migrations of Hope: A Study of the Short Fiction of Three Indian American Writers based on her Ph.D. thesis.[5] In 2021, her second collection of poems, Stitching a Home published by Red River containing 55 poems. [3]
Moon in My Teacup (2019)
'Moon in My Teacup' is a collection of fifty-one poems that set out to do just what the title and the tiny little quatrain that begins its preface say - to reflect the moon in the teacup, the macrocosm in the microcosm and the world in the mind. Speaking of love, longing, relationships, dilemmas and failures in startlingly fresh images, these poems make way for a memorable debut collection.[3][6]
Many of these are poems that have a strong female and feminist voice bespeaking the numerous negotiations that must be undertaken on the way towards the understanding and assertion of the self.[7]
Migration of Hope (2019)
Migrations of Hope, stemming from the writer's doctoral work on the negotiation of diaspora space in the short fiction of three Indian American women writers - Bharati Mukherjee, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, and Jhumpa Lahiri, attempts to discuss the diaspora space in gendered terms. It analyzes how diaspora experiences work differently for men and women while also insisting that it is capable of offering greater empowerment to both. Viewed within a multicultural narrative, the book upholds diaspora narratives by women as offering culture-bridges for empathy, understanding and growth.[8][5]
Stitching a Home (2021)
The fifty-two poems in Stitching a Home undertake a searching analysis of the idea of home in cultural narratives of the everyday. Home, these poems urge, can be everything, yet nothing.[9] Again, there is no fixed signification of home. It can be signified by place, person, object, feeling, dream, memory, forgetting and so on. Home as an idea repeatedly evokes the world and asks us to pay attention to the ideas of alienation and belonging. Traversing through cities, relationships, daybreaks and nightfalls, these are poems that elevate the minutiae of our daily living into intense moments of poetic reflection.[10][11]
Writing Style
For Basudhara, “Poetry is a companion, not of life’s headlong activity, but of the rustle of its quieter moments when the clarity of prose is defeated, silenced and overwhelmed by the need for figurative explorations of experience.” [12] She writes poetry with a realism often tinged, heavily, with irony. Many of her poems are anecdotal. Linguistic experimentation, psychological depth, a sudden epiphany and quiet humour are essential hallmarks of her style.[10] Almost all of her images are drawn from the familiar domestic world that we inhabit but placed within a different context, their meaning throws new light upon her poems. Sharp and often satirical, her style is unostentatious and memorable.[7][9][13] Jaydeep Sarangi points on Basudhara's style that "Poetry, for her, is neither art for art’s sake, nor mere cathartic self-expression but an intense and intimate act of communication. A poem, she believes, is a brainteaser that blooms or withers by its ability or otherwise to communicate emotions to the reader."[6]
Books
- Moon in My Teacup (2019) by Writer Workshop India [3]
- Migrations of Hope: A Study of the Short Fiction of Three Indian American Writers (2019) by Atlantic Publishers [5]
- Stitching a Home (2021) by Red River Publication[14]
References
- ↑ Nawaid, Kashif. "Dr. Basudhara Roy - Karim City College". www.karimcitycollege.ac.in. Retrieved 2021-09-24.
- ↑ "Basudhara Roy". Retrieved 2021-09-24.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 "Moon in My Teacup". WritersWorkshopIndia.com. 2019-03-04. Retrieved 2021-09-24.
- ↑ Roy, Basudhara. "'For Kali' and other poems by Basudhara Roy". Lucy Writers Platform. Retrieved 2021-09-24.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Roy, Basudhara (2019). Migrations of hope : reading the short fiction of three Indian American women writers. New Delhi. ISBN 978-81-269-3014-2. OCLC 1105750423. Search this book on
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Poetry of the Mind". The Statesman. 2020-05-11. Retrieved 2021-09-24.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Book Review: Moon in My Teacup". Retrieved 2021-09-24.
- ↑ "Migrations of Hope: Reading the Short Fiction of Three Indian American Women Writers". ompublications.in. Retrieved 2021-09-24.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "BOOK REVIEW: Robert Maddox-Harle". Retrieved 2021-09-24.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Book Review: Basudhara Roy's 'Stitching a Home'". Cafe Dissensus Everyday. 2021-07-08. Retrieved 2021-09-24.
- ↑ Editor_Kitaab (2021-07-08). "Book Review: Stitching a Home by Basudhara Roy". KITAAB. Retrieved 2021-09-24.CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link)
- ↑ Media, The News Shots (2021-03-25). "Poetry Is A Companion, Not Of Life's Headlong Activity: Basudhara Roy Exclusive Interview". The News Shots. Retrieved 2021-09-24.
- ↑ "Candice Daquin's review of Stitching a Home". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2021-09-24.
- ↑ Roy, Basudhara Roy (2021). Stitching a Home. Red River. ISBN 978-8195090006. Search this book on
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