Jaydeep Sarangi

Dubbed as 'Bard on the Banks of Dulung' Jaydeep Sarangi is an Indian poet and reviewer with ten poetry collections in English, latest being the half-confession (2024) and a noted scholar on poetry, postcolonial studies, dalit literature and translation studies with forty five books. Anchored in Kolkata/Jhargram his recent co-authored books include, Mapping the Mind, Minding The Map: Twenty Contemporary Indian English Poets, Sahitya Akademi, 2023 and A Life Uprooted: A Bengali Dalit Refugee...See more

Dubbed as 'Bard on the Banks of Dulung' Jaydeep Sarangi is an Indian poet and reviewer with ten poetry collections in English, latest being the half-confession (2024) and a noted scholar on poetry, postcolonial studies, dalit literature and translation studies with forty five books. Anchored in Kolkata/Jhargram his recent co-authored books include, Mapping the Mind, Minding The Map: Twenty Contemporary Indian English Poets, Sahitya Akademi, 2023 and A Life Uprooted: A Bengali Dalit Refugee Remembers, Sahitya Akademi, 2022. Sarangi is currently the President of Guild of Indian English Writers, Editors and Critics (GIEWEC) and Vice President, EC, Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library (IPPL), Kolkata. Living with poets and poetry, he is a principal of New Alipore College, Kolkata. E mail: jaydeepsarangi1@gmail.com See less