Poile Sengupta

Poile Sengupta (née Ambika Gopalakrishnan; born 1948) is an Indian writer in English.

She has written a number of columns for children, the longest running of which, 'A Letter to You', a humour column about a 10-year-old boy Perky and his friend Raghu, ran intermittently in the weekly, later monthly, magazine Children's World for over thirty years.

As a playwright, her first full-length play, Mangalam, won the award for the most socially-relevant theme in The Hindu-Madras Players Playscripts Competition in 1993.

She received, in 1999-2001, a senior fellowship of the Government of India to write plays for children in English.

She has also thrice been on the jury of Trinity College, London, international competition of plays for young people.