Mandakranta Sen
Mandakranta Sen is an Indian poet writing in Bengali. She studied in a medical college but quit before the final exams and became a full-time writer. She was awarded Ananda Purashkar for her first poetry book. She later went on to receive the Swarnajayanti Special Sahitya Akademi Young Writers Award which she returned in 2015 to protest against the Dadri incident and the attacks on writers and rationalists.Born in Kolkata, Mandakranta completed her secondary education from Sakhawat Memorial Govt. Girls' High School and higher secondary from Lady Brabourne College. She later went on to study MBBS at Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital but dropped out in between.
