Chitra Gajadin

{{Short description|Surinamese author of poetry, drama and prose}}

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| caption = Chitra Gajadin, {{circa|lk=no|2002}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1954|6|21}}

| birth_place = District Suriname, Surinam

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| nationality = Dutch

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| occupation = writer, poet

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Chitra Gajadin (born in District Suriname, 21 June 1954) is a Surinamese author of poetry, drama and prose. Though she lives in the Netherlands and her main literary language is Dutch, her expression of joy occurs when she is reminded of her native country.{{cite book|last=Arnold|first=A. James|title=A History of Literature in the Caribbean: Volume 2: English- and Dutch-speaking regions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FYs9AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA585|date=23 July 2001|publisher=John Benjamins Publishing Company|isbn=978-90-272-9833-1|pages=585–}} Gajadin worked as a reviewer for Weekkrant Suriname, in the public libraries, and for some magazines. Her poetry delves into themes of India and Hindu culture, where she describes sensitive and penetrating observances of Hindustani who left Suriname. Her poems display nostalgia for her youth in the district of Suriname and her experiences returning to her homeland after years of absence. As an Indo-Caribbean female poet, her contemporaries are Mahadai Das, Shana Yardan, Niala Maharaj, and Asha Radjkoemar.{{cite book|last=Dawes|first=Kwame Senu Neville|title=Talk Yuh Talk: Interviews with Anglophone Caribbean Poets|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YBkWXcsoN5sC&pg=PA119|year=2001|publisher=University of Virginia Press|isbn=978-0-8139-1946-1|pages=119–}}