Sunanda Sikdar
Sunanda Sikdar is an Indian writer and memoirist of Bengali origin. She was born after the partition of India in 1947, in the village of Digpait in East Pakistan, from where her family migrated to Kolkata in India in the 1950s.
Her award-winning memoir Doyamoyeer Kotha was published in 2008, and received enormous critical and popular acclaim. The essayist Prasanta Chakravarty wrote:
The book received the Ananda Puroshkar and Penguin India has released an English translation under the title A Life Long Ago. In 2010, an extract was also published as a part of Penguin's annual anthology, First Proof: The Penguin Book Of New Writing From India 6.
