A Transparency Against The Sunlight

A collection of 96 poems published by Writers Workshop.

About the Author:
Jyotsna Agnihotri Gupta (born 1948) taught English at Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi, from 1969 to 1980. Four of her poems feature in Professor P. Lal’s 'Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology and a Credo', published by Writers Workshop, India, in 1971.

In 1980 she moved to the Netherlands, where she has lived since with her family. She has a PhD in Sociology from Leiden University and has taught courses on gender and diversity at several Dutch universities including Leiden and Maastricht University. She has written extensively about reproductive technologies, gender, women’s health and bioethics. Her publications include 'New Reproductive Technologies, Women’s Health and Autonomy: Freedom or Dependency?' (Sage, 2000). She has also worked as a freelance gender consultant for the World Health Organization in Geneva and the International Commission of Jurists.

In 2013 she retired from teaching, and besides continuing to publish her research, she spends her time learning to paint, mainly watercolours, and with black ink (sumi-e technique) in Chinese and Japanese traditions.

This is her first book of poems.