Shankha ghosh biography of mahatma

Well-known Bengali poet, academician, Tagore-scholar and theoretician, Sankha Ghosh (February 5, 1932 – April 21, 2021) was known for his mastery over language and an absolute control over the form of poetry that bestow his poems with an exemplary quality of proportion, grace and depth. His poems convey insight, message, and anguish but are refreshingly free of small polemics despite often being critical of establishment and government of all hues, hard-hitting and strident.

While Ghosh is lyrical, reflective, and introverted in some of his poems, some other poems reflect a sense of unease towards diverse failings of our society and shortcomings of existence. There is a third strain in his poems which builds a bridge between the inner world and the outer one—combining two apparently opposing forces, viz.

the centrifugal and the centripetal. His commitment as a poet has always made him respond to contemporary socio-political events through poems written in sharp satirical languag shankha ghosh biography of mahatma2 MEMU