Sumana Roy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3654170 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sumana Roy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sumana |
| FAMILY NAME | Roy |
| SIGNATURE | ROY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Government of West Bengal |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
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Plant Theory
Over a hundred years after the publication of the scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose’s 1922 Abyakta, a book of essays in Bangla where he writes about his experiments on plant life, the response of plants to external stimuli, particularly electrical energy, a nervous system in plants, and his work towards revealing what he calls ‘torulipi’, a plant script, so as to be able to prove that plants were indeed living beings, scientists are now proving man…
Rurban Village
Paayechari
Research Article| November 01 2022 Paayechari: On Writing as Walking Sumana Roy Sumana Roy Sumana Roy teaches at the Department of English and Creative Writing at Ashoka University. She is the author of How I Became a Tree (2017), a work of nonfiction; Missing: A Novel (2018); Out of Syllabus: Poems (2019); and My Mother’s Lover and Other Stories (2019), a collection of short stories. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google the…
Writing Water
WRITE WATER-AND NOT NECESSARILY about it-in our poems? I often find myself turning helplessly to onomatopoeia to rescue us. I begin with the sounds in Bangla, the language I was born in. 'Jal', which is the word for water, has a rhyming onomatopoeic phrase to describe its shining and reflective character: 'chhal chhal'. There are others which carry the sense of how the water is falling, its sound, volume and intensity: 'toop toop' for waterdrops …
On Eating
The Tagore family had as much influence on the fine arts, music, dance, clothing and architecture as they did on Bengali cuisine. Rabindranath Tagore, born after the experiments in the bawarcheekhana (kitchen) during Dwarkanath's time and Debendranath's culture of frugal but balanced nutritious meals, was exposed to European cuisine during his visits abroad and by Jnadanandini, his sister-in-law. In this paper, I try to show, against a background…
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On Eating
The Tagore family had as much influence on the fine arts, music, dance, clothing and architecture as they did on Bengali cuisine. Rabindranath Tagore, born after the experiments in the bawarcheekhana (kitchen) during Dwarkanath's time and Debendranath's culture of frugal but balanced nutritious meals, was exposed to European cuisine during his visits abroad and by Jnadanandini, his sister-in-law. In this paper, I try to show, against a background…
Writing Water
WRITE WATER-AND NOT NECESSARILY about it-in our poems? I often find myself turning helplessly to onomatopoeia to rescue us. I begin with the sounds in Bangla, the language I was born in. 'Jal', which is the word for water, has a rhyming onomatopoeic phrase to describe its shining and reflective character: 'chhal chhal'. There are others which carry the sense of how the water is falling, its sound, volume and intensity: 'toop toop' for waterdrops …
Paayechari
Research Article| November 01 2022 Paayechari: On Writing as Walking Sumana Roy Sumana Roy Sumana Roy teaches at the Department of English and Creative Writing at Ashoka University. She is the author of How I Became a Tree (2017), a work of nonfiction; Missing: A Novel (2018); Out of Syllabus: Poems (2019); and My Mother’s Lover and Other Stories (2019), a collection of short stories. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google the…
Plant Theory
Over a hundred years after the publication of the scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose’s 1922 Abyakta, a book of essays in Bangla where he writes about his experiments on plant life, the response of plants to external stimuli, particularly electrical energy, a nervous system in plants, and his work towards revealing what he calls ‘torulipi’, a plant script, so as to be able to prove that plants were indeed living beings, scientists are now proving man…
Rurban Village
Asvattha , and
Art (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Bengali (2 works) · History (2 works) · Indian History and Philosophy (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Animal and Plant Science Education (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · BENGAL (1 work)