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{{Infobox author<br />
| name = Basudhara Roy<br />
| image = Basudhara Roy.jpg<br />
| birth_date = 1986<br />
| occupation = Poet and Assistant Professor of English<br />
| notable_works = A Blur of a Woman, Write To Me, Inhabiting, Stitching a Home, Migrations of Hope, Moon in My Teacup<br />
| website = {{URL|basudhararoy.com}}<br />
| alma_mater = Graduated from Banaras Hindu University<br />
| nationality = Indian<br />
| genre = Poetry, Criticism<br />
}}<br />
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'''Basudhara Roy''' (born 1986) is an Indian English-language poet, critic, and assistant professor at PG Department of English at Karim City College, Jamshedpur, which is affiliated with [[Kolhan University]].<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":4">{{Cite report |url=https://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/aboutus/pdf/AR-2023-24.pdf |title=Annual Report 2023-24 |date=25 April 2025 |publisher=Sahitya Akademi |page=108 |url-status=live}}</ref><br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
Born in 1986, Roy completed her graduation and post-graduation in English at [[Banaras Hindu University]], where she earned gold medals. She was later awarded the UGC [[Research fellowships in India|Junior Research Fellowship]] and received her Ph.D. in Diaspora Women's writing from [[Kolhan University]], Chaibasa.<ref name="karimBio">{{cite web |title=Dr. Basudhara Roy – Karim City College |url=https://karimcitycollege.ac.in/2023/06/15/dr-basudhara-roy/ |website=Karim City College |date=15 June 2023 |access-date=15 August 2025}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Roy has been teaching in the Department of English at Karim City College for over a decade, with areas of interest that include diaspora literature, cultural studies, gender studies, postmodern criticism, and ecological studies.<ref name="karimBio"/><br />
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==Published works==<br />
Roy's academic and creative output spans literary criticism and poetry:<br />
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=== Criticism ===<br />
* ''Migrations of Hope: A Study of the Short Fiction of Three Indian American Writers'' (Atlantic Publishers, 2019) – a scholarly monograph based on her doctoral research.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2023-06-15 |title=Dr. Basudhara Roy - Karim City College |url=https://karimcitycollege.ac.in/2023/06/15/dr-basudhara-roy/ |access-date=2025-08-14 |language=en-US}}</ref><br />
* ''Write to Me: Essays on Indian Poetry in English'' (Black Eagle Books, 2024)<br />
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===Poetry collections===<br />
* ''Moon in My Teacup'' (Writer's Workshop, 2019)<br />
* ''Stitching a Home'' (Red River, 2021)<ref name=":1" /><br />
* ''Inhabiting'' (Authorspress, 2022)<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Lahiri |first=Gopal |date=2022-06-15 |title=Book Review: Existential Exploration in Poetry |url=https://livewire.thewire.in/livewire/book-review-existential-exploration-in-poetry/ |access-date=2025-08-14 |website=The Wire |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite journal |last=Ali |first=Semeen |date=2022 |title=Review of Inhabiting; New Poems (2018-2021), KottoorGopikrishnan, AdisakritKavya |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27277344 |journal=Indian Literature |volume=66 |issue=4 (330) |pages=191–194 |jstor=27277344 |issn=0019-5804}}</ref><br />
* A Blur of a Woman (Red River, 2024)<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Sarangi |first=Jaydeep |date=2025-01-24 |title=Verse therapy {{!}} Review of 'A Blur of a Woman' by Basudhara Roy |url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/poetry-book-review-a-blur-of-a-woman-basudhara-roy-contemporary-indian-english-poems/article68958087.ece |access-date=2025-08-14 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}</ref><br />
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=== Edited Books ===<br />
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* ''Soul Spaces: Poems on Cities, Towns and Villages'' (Authorspress, 2022)<ref name="karimBio" /><br />
* ''Mapping the Mind, Minding the Map: Twenty Contemporary Indian English Poets'' (Sahitya Akademi, 2023)<ref name="karimBio" /><br />
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Her poems and essays have appeared in prominent platforms such as [[Economic and Political Weekly|EPW]], The Pine Cone Review, [[The Wire (India)|Live Wire]], Lucy Writers’ Platform, The Woman Inc., Madras Courier, Berfrois, Yearbook of Indian English Poetry 2020–21, and The Aleph Review.<ref name=":1" /><br />
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==Academic contributions==<br />
Beyond the classroom, Roy has contributed reviews, translations, and editorial work in literary journals. She has served in editorial roles on boards such as Teesta Review and Daath Voyage, and has guest-reviewed for academic journals. Her conference presence spans topics like diaspora, feminism, ecocriticism, postcolonialism, and pedagogical ethics.<ref name="karimBio"/> Roy also contributes toward theme of [[Indian English literature|Indian Writings in English]] and takes part in [[Sahitya Akademi]] literary events.<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite report |url=https://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/pdf/Symposium-English_06-01-2023.pdf |title=CURRENT TRENDS IN INDIAN POETRY IN ENGLISH |date=20 December 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite report |url=https://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/pdf/FOL-2024_11-16-Mar-2024.pdf |title=Sahityoutsav: Festival of Letters |date=10 January 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref><br />
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==Poetry and critical reception==<br />
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Roy's debut collection, ''Moon in My Teacup'', was praised by [[Jaydeep Sarangi]] in The Statesman for its “unassailable gusto,” its blend of intimacy and socio-ecological awareness, and a manner “marked by clarity and modesty,” which the reviewer linked to poetic traditions of Kamala Das and Mamang Dai.<ref name="statesman">{{cite web |title=Poetry of the Mind |url=https://www.thestatesman.com/books-education/poetry-of-the-mind-1502887137.html |website=The Statesman |date=11 May 2020 |access-date=15 August 2025}}</ref> According to Lahiri, Roy's "poems never shrink from moral ambiguity and difficult questions of life."<ref name=":2" /> In her third collection, ''Inhabiting'', Roy continues to explore emotion and imagery evocatively, showing affinity with figures like Su Tung-Po in her poetic sensibility.<ref name=":3" /> Anita Nahal describes her as a neo-romantic poet whose work fuses realism, mystery, drama, and wit, invoking poetic traditions of Pablo Neruda, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, and Maya Angelou, and weaving themes of love, inhabiting, and water.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nahal |first=Anita |date=2023-02-17 |title=Remarkable Poetry from a Wise Soul |url=https://eastindiastory.com/remarkable-poetry-from-a-wise-soul/ |access-date=2025-08-14 |website=East India Story |language=en-US}}</ref> Her recent collection, ''A Blur of a Woman'' gathers poems and has received coverage in national press. ''The Hindu'' carried a dedicated review of the collection, marking mainstream critical attention to her most recent volume.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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Roy explores belonging, memory, relationships, ecological awareness, and lived interiority in her poems. Her poetic language moves between delicate imagery, quiet strength, and emotional resonance, balancing the personal and universal in a voice both reflective and quietly powerful.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /><ref name=":0" /><br />
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