In The Hornet’s Trail (Bhromorjan), poet Sutapa Chakraborty sends the hornet to the land of memories just like Kalidas’s cloud in Meghdoot. Her memories are nothing but her childhood, wherein lives her loving grandparents and the home where no one lives now. The Hornet’s Trail is that vehicle that transports the poet to her birth and also to the language (Sylheti Bengali) of her adolescence. The only connect between the living and the dead is this hornet. Once one rides it, her late grandpa, grandma, that lost home, trees, birds, butterflies – all of them return to life…

Sample poems:

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Oh red hibiscus, what are you staring at? Are you ogling
the illusions of womanhood? The edges of her breasts
stutter. Would you drink the blood of a woman? Open
your mouth… bigger…even bigger, wherein the world
can enter. As big as in where a girl can sleep. Hibiscus,
do become a woman in your next birth.

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Wood catches fire. Fire burns like red roasted meat. The
human chest burns and so does the back. Water trickles
inside the chest. Shadow falls on water. Shadow burns
on wood. Body burns within the shadow. The sound of
a distant gong vibrates.

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Author bio: Sutapa Chakraborty writes excellent poetry and imbues her every piece of writing with some kind of unheard melody. Hailing from a remote and an interior village of Assam, India, this possessed and dionysian soul has already conquered the hearts of the poetry-lovers of the mainstream of both West Bengal and Bangladesh. Deeply rooted in her cultural milieu, her poetry surpasses it almost with a magic wand. Born on 11th September, 1991, Sutapa did her graduation and post graduation both from Assam University of Silchar, the second largest town of Assam, India. She bagged her Doctor of Philosophy degree from her Alma Mater on a topic related to feminism and Indian law. Sutapa has so far 5 books of poetry to her credit. Her first book ‘Deraje Halud Phool, Gatajanma’ ( Kolkata, 2022) earned her the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Yuva Award (2024) which is given to young literateurs in India .Closely followed a shower of poems in four books ‘Mayavidya'( Kolkata, 2022), ‘Bhramarjan'( Kolkata, 2025), ‘ Neel Aparajita’ ( Kolkata, 2025), ‘Shivram Pathshala'( Kolkata, 2025). Of these, ‘Bhramarjan’ gained the attention of international readership through a fine English translation by Rajorshi Patranabis and published by the highly esteemed Transcendent Zero Press, Texas, USA.

Translator bio: Rajorshi Patranabis is a multilingual poet, editor, translator and reviewer dabbling into different forms of poetry. He has this knack of writing in fewer words with a lot for the readers to ponder about.A Wiccan by philosophy, he has eleven collections of poetry( ten in English and one in Bengali) and five collections of translations (two co authored with Dr Ranjit Dutta of Assam). He has collections of sonnets, haibun, haiku and free verses. He is credited for the first ever collection of Gogyoka titled The Last drop of your Tears, published by Hawakkal prokashona and launched at World Book Fair, 2023, New Delhi, which had been translated to Assamese and is currently being translated to hindi. He is also credited with the first ever collection of Gogyoshi titled Checklist Anomaly by a single author in English, also published by Hawakal publication. Gossips of Our Surrogate Story is his last published poetry anthology of Wiccan prose poems launched at the World Book Fair, New Delhi in January 2025.