Lectures by Prof Radha Chakravarty

Prof Radha Chakravarty, a well-known Indian scholar, author and writer who teaches English Literature at Gargi College, University of Delhi, will be delivering a lecture on Tagore’s Short Stories in English at the Colombo University English Department on June 11 at noon.

The lecture is organised by the Indian Cultural Centre in association with the Centre for Contemporary Indian Studies and the Colombo University English Department.

Her second lecture will be on Representations of the body in stories by South Asian Women at the Peradeniya University Arts Faculty Seminar Room on June 13 at 4 pm.

Prof Chakravarty co-edited the largest anthology of Rabindranath Tagore's works available in English, published by Harvard University Press to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Gurudev Tagore. She is the visiting Indian scholar to deliver lectures on literature in the Universities of Colombo and Peradeniya.

Prof Chakravarty has translated several of Tagore’s works, including Gora, Boyhood Days, Chokher Bali, Farewell Song: Shesher Kabita and The Land of Cards: Stories, Poems and Plays for Children. Other works in translation include Bankimchandra Chatterjee’s Kapalkundala, In the Name of the Mother by Mahasweta Devi and Crossings: Stories from Bangladesh and India.