Subhadra Sen Gupta (1952-2021): A beloved children’s author is taken away by Covid-19
The acclaimed and beloved children’s author died on May 3, 2021, at the age of 68. Subhadra Sen Gupta (1952-2021). | Shyam Madhavan Sarada
There are people of a certain vintage, children of the 1980s and 90s, who remember an English children’s magazine called
Target. In our house, we were enthusiastic readers of
Target. We didn’t get much else Indian fare. For that, there were stories and novels in Bengali. But in English we read Enid Blyton, the classics, and Tintin. Into this world, came
Target like a breath of fresh air.