Literary Awards and Commendations
Buddhadeva Bose Memorial Award, presented to me by Sankha Ghosh, 2016
Major S. C. Dutt Memorial Medal from Ophthalmological Society of West Bengal, 2011
Best Bengali of the Year in Literature Award from Star Ananda, 2009
Suresh Sarkar Memorial Ananda Prize, Calcutta, 1997, for Ranger Rabindranath (on Tagore’s colour vision), shared with a co-author Sushobhan Adhikari
Translation Recommendation of the Poetry Book Society for the Selected Poems of Rabindranath Tagore, 1991
Bhubanmohini Dasi Medal of Calcutta University for ‘eminent contribution to contemporary Bengali letters’, 1986
Prafulla Sarkar Memorial Ananda Prize, Calcutta, 1986, for Rabindranath o Victoria Ocampor Sandhane
Writing-related Bursaries, Residencies, Visiting Fellowships etc
Grant from the Association of Senior members of St Hilda’s College, Oxford, for the Buddhadeva Bose project: 1999-2000
Fellowship at Salzburg Seminar Session 354, ‘The Contemporary Novel’, March 1998, with travel bursary from Southern Arts to attend the same
Translation bursary from the British Centre for Literary Translation, University of East Anglia (funded by the European Commission) to translate my play Raater Rode, October 1997
Southern Arts training bursary for attending the conference on drama translation, University of Hull, September 1997
Writer-in-Residence to schools in East Anglia, grant from Eastern Arts, 1993
Study tour grant to visit German art galleries and museums, from the German Academic Exchange, 1992, for the project on Tagore’s use of colours in his art and literature
Visiting Professor, Visvabharati University, in connection with the translation project mentioned below, 1989, with travel grant from the British Council
Southern Arts translation bursary to translate the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore, 1987
Writer-in-Residence, London Borough of Redbridge, Essex, 1986-87
Travel grant from the ICCR, New Delhi, to travel to Argentina, 1985
Research trip to Paris for work on Victoria Ocampo, 1984, sponsored by the Permanent Argentine Delegation to the UNESCO
Visiting Fellow, Visvabharati University, 1983, for working on the papers of Rabindranath Tagore and Victoria Ocampo, with travel grant from the Commonwealth Foundation