Jaydeep Sarangi

Dubbed as ‘Bard on the Banks of Dulung’ Jaydeep Sarangi is an Indian poet, poetry activist with eleven poetry collections in English latest being the half-confession (2024). and scholar on dalit studies,  postcolonial studies and Indian Writings  with forty one books  anchored in Kolkata/Jhargram,. Widely anthologised and reviewed as a significant contemporary poet Sarangi is on the editorial boards for journals of repute, devoted to marginal studies and poetry criticism. With Rob Harle he has edited six anthologies of poems from Australia and India which are a wealthy literary link between the nations. With Amelia Walker, he has guest edited a special issue for TEXT, Australia. Sarangi has twenty books and several articles/essays/reviews on dalit studies which are an window to the world. His recent article, “The Sociological Self as Palimpsest Caste, Class, Religion, and Gender in the Select Writings of Bama” appeared through Routledge, UK. His recent 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, 2023.  Mapping the Mind, Minding the Map ( 2023, Sahitya Akademi) is his latest book.  Sarangi is currently the   President of Guild of Indian English Writers, Editors and Critics (GIEWEC) and Vice  President, EC, Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library, Kolkata. Living with poets and poetry, Sarangi is principal of New Alipore College, Kolkata-53, WB and serving as NAAC peer team member. He may be reached at: jaydeepsarangi1@gmail.com Website : https://jaydeepsarangi.in/