By Shanta Acharya from her latest collection, Imagine and New selected Poems  (HarperCollins)

Chair: Shri Keki N. Daruwalla

 

Shanta Acharya won a scholarship to Oxford, where she was among the first batch of women admitted to Worcester College in 1979. A recipient of the Violet Vaughan Morgan Fellowship, she was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy for her work on Ralph Waldo Emerson. The author of ten books, her publications range from poetry, literary criticism and fiction to finance. In addition to her philanthropic activities, she served twice on the board of trustees of the Poetry Society in the UK

 

(Collaboration: The Poetry Society, India)