Prof. Sonjoy Dutta-Roy, Author at Different Truths

Prof. Sonjoy Dutta-Roy

Prof Sonjoy Dutta Roy retired as Professor/Head, Department of English, Dean of Arts, and Coordinator of Centres for Theatre/Films and Media Studies at the University of Allahabad. Senior Fulbright Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley, Fellow at Louisiana State University, and UGC Visiting Fellow at Jadavpur University. His papers on theatre/poetry featured in leading journals. Over three decades, he directed Indian/American plays and lectured at UC Berkeley, UConn, Tufts, and more. Poetry collections: The Absent Words (1998), Into Grander Space (2005), Diary Poems (2012), and the forthcoming Of Blood and Book. Poems shortlisted by the British Council, the Poetry Society of India, Chandrabhaga, and Kavya Bharti. He is our National Editor: Academics.

August 6, 2024
Prof. Sonjoy Dutta-Roy
Poem, Special Feature, Tribute

Two Songs: A Tribute to Tagore

Prof. Sonjoy Dutta-RoyProf Sonjoy Dutta Roy retired as Professor/Head, Department of English, Dean of Arts, and Coordinator of Centres for Theatre/Films and Media Studies at the University of Allahabad....

July 5, 2021
Prof. Sonjoy Dutta-Roy
Poem

Spring: Season of Love

Inspired by two Bengali songs, Prof. Sonjoy transcreates the romance of Spring, exclusively for Different Truths. To the lilt of the flute To the beat of the Mridanga Comes the...

June 25, 2021
Prof. Sonjoy Dutta-Roy
Poem

The Bee’s Song

As an homage to the singer Baul Shah Abdul Karim, Prof. Sonjoy transcreates a baul song from Bengali into English. An exclusive for Different Truths. Without you I cannot...

September 2, 2020
Prof. Sonjoy Dutta-Roy
Governance

Song on a Folk Lilt – IV

Prof Sonjoy’s in his fourth and concluding part continues with his legacy of Bengal’s folk music. An exclusive for Different Truths. You areNo more the youThat I knew Your...

August 26, 2020
Prof. Sonjoy Dutta-Roy
Literature, Poem

Another Ebbtide Song – III

Here’s a third part of the folk songs of Bengal, by Prof Sonjoy, exclusively for Different Truths. O you have kept me long afloatO you have flooded my frail...