Who is Toru Dutt

Toru Dutt (Bengali: তরু দত্ত; 4 March 1856 – 30 August 1877) was an Indian Bengali translator and poet from British India, who wrote in English and French. She is among the founding figures of Indo-Anglian literature, alongside Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (1809–1831), Manmohan Ghose (1869–1924), and Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949). She is known for her volumes of poetry in English, A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (1877) and Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan (1882), and for a novel in French, Le Journal de Mademoiselle d'Arvers (1879). Her poems explore themes of loneliness, longing, patriotism and nostalgia. Dutt died at the age of 21.

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Toru Dutt was born in Calcutta on 4 March 1856 to a Beng...
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Toru Dutt Poems

  • Near Hastings
    Near Hastings, on the shingle-beach,
    We loitered at the time
    When ripens on the wall the peach,
    The autumn's lovely prime. ...
  • Savitri. Part Ii
    Great joy in Madra. Blow the shell
    The marriage over to declare!
    And now to forest-shades where dwell
    The hermits, wend the wedded pair. ...
  • The Legend Of Dhruva
    Vishnu Purana. Book I. Chapter XI.


    Sprung from great Brahma, Manu had two sons, ...
  • Savitri. Part Iii
    Death in his palace holds his court,
    His messengers move to and fro,
    Each of his mission makes report,
    And takes the royal orders,--Lo, ...
  • The Tree Of Life
    Broad daylight, with a sense of weariness!
    Mine eyes were closed, but I was not asleep,
    My hand was in my father's, and I felt
    His presence near me. Thus we often past ...
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