Amreeta Sen

Journalist with The Statesman Calcutta from 1991-2001.Helped start Voices The Statesman In School in 1993- then worked with Voices. Had a column called Pet Corner in The Statesman from 1996-1998. Helped start The Telegraph In Schools in 2001. Wrote Kurukshetra (1991), Kaikeyi (1992), The Lost Unicorn, Kanya And Other Tales in between. Also wrote a few stories for the Chicken Soup For The Soul series. Started writing for Malini a Bengali Little Magazine from 2010- and had three stories inclued in three Malini anthologies. After Troy was published in 2020 just before the world went topsy turvy. Also wrote short stories for The Statesman and The Times Of India in between the years Started The Sarama Project For Abandoned Dogs from April 2017 to try and fund dog shelters. Will be staging my book Kaikeyi-A Medley on stage on June 1 2017 to raise funds for Sarama.

Bengali Bride

Why newly wed couples in Bengal cannot spend the first night together

The inauspicious night The wedding season is here. A time of merrymaking and mirth. Numerous ceremonies and festivities at the bride’s house before the wedding. The fun of the ceremony itself and then the fleeting, plaintive notes of bidaai. And the bride’s welcome into her new life… baraan… But did you know that in Bengal

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Duryodhana's daughter Lakshmana had a tragic life

A royal princess, but Duryodhana’s daughter Lakshmana had a tragic life

Princess of Hastinapura. Crown Prince Duryodhana’s daughter Lakshmana was adored since birth. Her twin brother Lakshman and she had charmed lives…but perhaps no fairy tale lasts forever. Why Lakshmana’s story is so tragic She was the apple of Duryodhana’s eye, but her father was also the man who had manipulated his cousins into losing their

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