A group of 16 Kolkata poets capture the avant-garde spirit of the city, dexterously mapping this poetic landscape post-2020.
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Inam Hussain Begg Mullick Dr. Arnab Chatterjee Somolekha
About the Editors:
1. Somolekha is a well-known Kolkata based poet and author. Her books, Little Tales from La La Land, Conundrum, Zilch, Distant Brontide, Oud & Amber and Yellow Goggles were her efforts to introduce the intense visions in her mindscape to the world. She currently teaches in the Bhawanipur College, Kolkata and is the COO of Azure ad agency. She writes in both Bengali and English with equal élan. Her English poems are regularly published in national and international magazines (online and offline) like Teesta Review, Scorpion, Expression, Prosopisia, The Kolkata Arts, Lit Review (Texas, USA), international online journals like Writers Cafe etc.
2. Inam Hussain Begg Mullick is an award-winning Kolkatan poet-editor, photographer, and polymath. He has published three poetry collections, Roses for the Madhouse, Winter's Electric Architecture, and The Magical Life of Inamorato. He has edited four anthologies of poetry, Peacocks in a Dream, Freedom Raga 2020, The Kolkata Cadence, and The Violet Sun. He has read his poetry at numerous spoken word sessions such as Sahitya Akademi's Poets’ Meet and at the Rotary Club, Shillong. He was a judge at Soul-Sutra and FanVille organized by Rotaract Club, and X-Lore organized by the St. Xavier’s University Literary Society. An avant-gardist and a major voice in contemporary Indian English Poetry, he has spoken on creative writing, editing, and publishing at Jadavpur University, Chandigarh University, and KLEF. For many years, his poems appeared in The Statesman and he is a former columnist with the same newspaper. Inam teaches creative writing.
3. Dr. Arnab Chatterjee is a academic by profession and a poet by temperament. He is the autor of over 10 books of poetry, including the famed Footnotes of History: A Tale of the Mahabharata. His poems have appeared both in India and abroad, and his name was included in the Who's Who of Indian Writers Writing in English, a national bibliography of records published by The Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi. His poetry is marked by a freshness of imagery and a broad philosophical outlook.
