Toru dutt biography definition

Poems Biography. Her poems explore themes of loneliness, longing, patriotism and nostalgia.

Toru dutt education

Dutt died at the age of Biography Early life and education Toru Dutt was born in Calcutta on 4 March to a Bengali family, which had converted to Christianity. The Dutt family was one of the first Calcutta families to be strongly influenced by the presence of Christian missionaries. Toru Dutt's grandfather Rasamay Dutt and her father both held important positions in the colonial government.

Her cousin Romesh Chandra Dutt was also a writer and Indian civil servant. Dutt's father converted to Christianity in , when Dutt was six years old. Her mother initially resisted conversion, but eventually became a practising Christian as well. Both of Dutt's parents published some writing: her father wrote poetry and her mother published a translation into Bengali of a religious monograph.

Toru was the youngest child of three, after sister Aru and brother Abju.