Born in Kolkata, Mitul Dutta is a major voice in contemporary Bengali literature. Her initial passion was music and singing which took her to a number of eminent gurus of classical music. This training has imparted a new kind of rhythm to her poetry, something very delicate but at the same time discerning. Sometimes it seems as if the words and phrases are coming up from the subconscious and many of her poems read like soliloquies. Her command over the poetic language is praiseworthy: one comes across images where the hand of night sweeps away everything and darkens the whole world’ and ‘someone goes on drenching the soil of the earthen tub where the sapling is no more.’ These are not abstract statements; rather they are self-deprecating tones, full of sensible and sensuous images.

Her sense of self deprecating tones which accommodates in a sense our contemporary existence as a whole, brings faith and frivolity, morality and morbidity side by side. Shuffling between lyrical prose and poetry the thoughts in Mitul’s poems float rhythmically often to a crescendo. But when not, they tend to settle into a simple plateau note that directly communicates with the reader by the sheer transparency of emotion.

Mitul Dutta is equally brilliant in her prose also, which is strikingly unique in expression and at the same time simple and subtle. Her autobiographical novel ‘Pargachha’, which was serialized in a magazine, is already a success. Mitul edits a poetry magazine ‘Kobiyaal’ which provides a platform for the young poets and is uncompromising in its quality and attitude.

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