Sankari P. Sarkar
The Poet
Born in Midnapore of Bengal in India on January 15, 1942, Sankari Prasad Sarkar had his degree in Science and later in Metallurgical Engineering. He was born at a time when World War II was in full fury and an all-out struggle for Indian independence was going on. He had been engaged in the production of defense equipments, in industry as a consultant and in Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) till his retirement as a Senior DGM.
Profile
Early Life
Literary Publications
(Outskirts Press Inc. USA)
Songs of Man & Millennium (Part I)
(Authorspress India)
Musing on Man & Millennium (Part II)
(Authorspress India)
Penchant for Poetry
He grew up in rich literary culture of Bengal and got influenced by the works of Kalidas (4th century AD), Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Premendra Mitra (1904-1988), Jibanananda Das (1899- 1954), Subhash Mukhopadhyay (1919-2003) and others at an early age.
Later he was drawn to English poetry and poets namely William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Thomas Gray, Lord Tennyson, John Keats, W B Yeats and W H Auden and American poets namely Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Philip Larkin, H W Longfellow, Billy Collins and others.
Languages
English
Hindi
Bengali
Sanskrit