Minakshi Datta

Minakshi and Jyotirmoy Datta divide their time between Kolkata, India and Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA.She also acted in a Bengali movie Banojyotsna directed by Dinen Gupta.

Minakshi Datta grew up in what was then the cradle of modernism in Bengal, ‘Kavita Bhavan’ at 202 Rashbehari Avenue, Kolkata.

Since then, her active participations in various streams of literature have continued in parallel with her professional life as an educator, spanning two countries - India and the USA.

This includes an anthology of Western love stories, titled ‘Bideshini’ (Bengali for ‘woman of other lands’), published in 1960.

She is a featured writer of a column on the Sunday edition of a leading daily Kolkata newspaper ‘Aajkaal.’ Datta's autobiographical sketches of Kavita Bhavan, ‘Buddhodeb Bosu O Tanr Sarorswat Goshthi’ (Bengali for ‘Buddhadeva Bose and his Literary Circle’) and ‘Smritite Chithite Buddhodeb Bosu’ (Bengali for ‘Reminiscences and Letters of Buddhadeva Bose’) portray the age of artistic excitement in Kolkata of the 1950s and 1960s.