Bookmarked Musings: Oh, Freedom by Sanjukta Dasgupta
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Poet and critic Gopal Lahiri analyses the latest poetry collection by Sanjukta Dasgupta, Oh, Freedom (Sahitya Akademi, 2025), calling it rich and relevant poetry.
- ISBN: 978-93-6163-947-4
- Published by Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi
- Price INR-220/-
Poetry is remarkably useful because it is sustained by true depths of feeling. At the same time, poetry is unsettling because it tells the truth about our lives. We go to poetry because it speaks to our disquieting condition. Sometimes our frankness is sorely tested, our virtue is challenged in no uncertain terms in poetry.
Sanjukta Dasgupta’s tenth collection of poems, ‘Oh, Freedom’ advocates for the censuring of the freedom of expression, for lyrics that look backward and reminisce, lyrics that look forward and hope, poems that grieve, that challenge, that celebrate and leave an intense verbal imprint at the end where oppression and injustice, strength and endurance, love and tenderness are depicted in her inimitable poetic forms.
