Poile Sengupta

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Poile Sengupta was born in 1948 as Ambika Gopalakrishnan. Today she is one of the foremost^{[citation needed]} Indian writers in English especially well known as a playwright and writer for children.

She has been a college lecturer, a senior school teacher, an educational consultant, a communication and language skills consultant, a consultant editor for a market research firm, and more recently a teacher for Montessori school children.

She has published six books for children including The Exquisite Balance (1985), The Way to my Friend's House (1988), The Story of the Road (1993), Vikram and Vetal (2006) and Vikramaditya's Throne (2007) among others.

Her stories have been included in a number of anthologies. The Target Annuals (1989, 1990), More Mystery Stories (1989), Sorry Best Friend (1996) are just some of the few collections which include her writing.

She has written a number of columns for children, the longest running of which, A Letter to You, ran in the monthly magazine Children's World for over twenty years. Another column of hers, Role Call, which appeared weekly in the Deccan Herald, was recently published in two volumes Role Call (2003) and Role Call Again (2003).

As a playwright, her first full-length play, Mangalam, won the award for the most socially relevant theme in The Hindu-Madras Players playscripts competition in 1993. Since then she has written a number of plays for both adults and children including Inner Laws, A Pretty Business, Keats Was A Tuber, and Yavamajakka. A collection of her plays for children has recently been brought out by Puffin.

In 1991, a collection of her poetry, A Woman Speaks, was published by Writer's Workshop, Calcutta.

In addition, Poile is an accomplished actor on stage and in film. She was the founder of Theatre Club, a Bangalore-based amateur theatre group.