"Portrait of a Lady" is a poem by the Indian English poet and art critic Ranjit Hoskote.
The poem won First Prize in the Seventh All India Poetry Competition conducted by The Poetry Society (India) in 1995.
[1] The poem brought the second major literary award for Hoskote, who also won the Sanskriti Award for Literature in 1996 and the Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award for lifetime achievement in 2005.
The poem has received critical acclaim since its first publication in 1997 in the book Emerging Voices[2] and has since been widely anthologised.
[3] The poem has been frequently quoted in scholarly analysis of contemporary Indian English poetry.