Rita Chowdhury

Place: Guwahati

Born: 1960

Biography:

Rita Sarma, also known as Rita Chowdhury, is an Indian poet and novelist born in 1960 in Guwahati, India. She is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award and has been a professor and lecturer at Cotton College, Guwahati, Assam in the Political Science Department. She was active in the Assam Movement in the early 1980s and is currently the editor of the Assamese literary magazine Gariyoshi and a former director of the National Book Trust, India.