Mandakranta Sen ( born 15 September 1972 , Kolkata , West Bengal ) 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
Dadri incident
2015 Dadri mob lynching
Mandakranta Sen