Song in a City

Mandira Ghosh was born in Calcutta and brought up in New Delhi. A Life member of the Poetry Society (India) and a distinguished member of the International Society of Poets, Mandira has published two volumes of verses, Aroma and Mew Sun. The books have been well received in poetry circles and acclaimed by the scientists, scholars, writers and editors. This is her first novel. She is a graduate in Mathematics from Delhi University and a Postgraduate in English Literature. She is a B. Ed. and has obtained a Diploma in Journalism from Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan, New Delhi. Her poems have been published in “Women Poets of India” edited by the renowned writer and poet Vijaya Goel, The Journal of the Poetry Society of India, World to World, Mirror, fourteen anthologies published by the national Library of Poetry and other journals. She has received the Editor’s Choice Award in 1993 by the National Library of Poetry, Maryland, US and in July 2001 by the International Library of Poetry, US. She elected into the International Poetry Hall of Fame in 1997. He poem “Next Millennium” has been published in ‘America at the Millennium’ that features the best Poets and Poems of the Twentieth Century. The International Society of Poets and Poems of the Twentieth century. The International Society of Poets invited her to take part in their conventions and symposiums six times. They have published sixteen of her poems and some of them are on poetry. Through her work Mandira Ghosh has tried to reach a point where science meets literature and other branches of the Humanities. She had switched from Mathematics to literature as lines of famous poets T.S. Eliot and P.B. Shelley spread balm to her troubled soul. For her final answer she looked towards the immortal verses in the Upanishads. The protagonist Nandini of this book, finds her icon in Maitreyi of the Upanishads and not in Sita or Sati. She finally says, quoting Robert Frost, “You have to believe me because I am a bard.”