“Is not just a faded echo of the feeble voice of decadent romanticism but an authentic Indian English utterance exquisitely tuned to the composite to Indian ethos, bringing home to the unbiased reader all the opulence, pageantry and charm of Indian life, and the spenders of Indian scene.”

Review of her poetry publications in *[Das, Sisir Kumar, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956, struggle for freedom : triumph and tragedy, http://books.google.com/books?id=sqBjpV9OzcsC, 1 January 1995, Sahitya Akademi, 978-81-7201-798-9, 184]

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