Sreyash Sarkar

Sreyash Sarkar is an Indian Bengali poet (Bengali:শ্রেয়স সরকার; born 20 September 1993). Sarkar has been published in international literary journals and has been featured as the youngest achiever, in the field of poetry in Education World Magazine and in the French world magazine, Le Mauricien among others.

Early life

Born to noted physicist professor of the University of Calcutta, Samir Kr. Sarkar and Pushpita Sarkar, a professor of Political Science at Bangabasi College, Sarkar grew up in Calcutta, India and studied at South Point School. From his school-life onwards, he was a student correspondent for Voices, the literary supplement of The Statesman, Calcutta, India. He received his initial musical training from his mother and later in Hindustani Classical Music in the Kirana and Gwalior gharanas, from Bidhan Chakrabarty, Rajyasree Ghosh, Sandip Ghosh, a disciple of Pt. A. Kanan and from Pt. Keerti Kumar Badsheshi, a disciple of Pt. Vinayak Torvi. His maternal grandaunt is the noted Hindustani Classical vocalist Padmashri Vidushi Sumitra Guha. He obtained his bachelor degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Karnataka. He later on, moved to Paris, France to pursue his post graduate studies for his diplome d'ingenieur in Microelectronics and Nanotechnology at ESIEE Paris,where from he graduated in 2018 with top honours: mention très bien avec les félicitations du jury and is presently pursuing his PhD on Metamaterials.

Engineering Accomplishments

• Best Poster Award, THERMINIC 2019, Lecco Italy.

Works

Notable poems written by Sarkar are listed at Eye on Life Magazine and include:

• Whirligig
• The Optical Symphony
• The Cage
• The Macrame of Carnal Waves
• I'm 23 and I'm Wearing a White Kurta
• A Tibetan Epistle

Style

Sarkar's works, as reviewed in The Galway Review and Red River Review, represents an endearing world of 'some basic formal truths'.

Le Mauricien goes on to comment that,

Sarkar thus delimits a position apart in the debate on the question of representation and brings up 'some basic formal truths' in pictorial space. The reflexive space, the powerful creations are not synonymous with anarchy. It is about safeguarding the autonomy of artistic creation and affirming a critical attitude towards the present world. Sarkar seems to question all objectivity in art, to approach the work as such, the expression of a search.[In his works] We see the misuse of motives, a short prosodic structure, a dry recitative and a rhythmic pattern constitutive of an intimate rumination, the effect of distancing and the search for an intimate cohesion.

In an interview for Arty Legume, he had indicated his principal poetic influences to be Rabindranath Tagore, Rainer Maria Rilke, Arthur Rimbaud & Sylvia Plath, who taught him, poetic restraint and the 'economy of balance'.

Publications

Publications containing Sarkar's works are listed as:

English

• Five Poetry Magazine
• Literal Latte
• B O D Y
• UReCA
• Southlit Literary Journal
• Indiana Review
• Ember
• Red River Review
• The Eastern New Mexico University's Art & Crafts journal, El Portal, list including Whirligig by Sarkar
• Circus Book
• Ijagun Poetry Journal
• Pif Magazine
• The Write Place At the Write Time
• Scarlet Leaf Review Magazine
• The Legendary
• Indigo Rising Magazine
• Galway Review Magazine
• Cecile's Writers Magazine
• Creativica
• Poetry Pacific
• Tin House
• River River Journal
• Poetry Pacific
• Plainsongs, Literary journal of Hastings College Press
• The Cape Rock, Southeast Missouri State University Press
• Fifth Wednesday Journal
• Fowl Feathered Review
• Dumas Demain
• The Paragon Journal
• Leaves of Ink
• TreeHouse Arts
• The Bitchin' Kitsch
• The Non-Fuctioning Scribblers

Bengali

• Anandabazar Patrika
• Adorer Nauka