is an Assistant Professor in English at Tufanganj College, Cooch Behar in West Bengal. Apart from various scholarly articles, he has penned four books of poems in English, namely, White, Blue and Other Poems, Phoenix on a Female Body and Other Poems, The Nectar-Nook: an English rendering of H.R. Bachchan’s Madhushala and A Mirror More Truthful. He has received the prestigious B.T. Memorial Award from Berhampore University, Odisha, in 2012, for the paper titled “Picassonian Cubism in the Eliotian Wasteland.”