`Chandrabati Kotha’ (aka Tales of Chandrabati) is our tribute to the sixteenth century pioneer poetess Chandrabati – portraying her elegiac life story and her passion for trend-setting writing. In her version of the `Ramayana’, she has retold the story of the Great Indian Epic from Sita’s perspective, ignoring the glory of its male chauvinist protagonist Rama. Being a regular disciple of her father, another legendary poet in Bangla literature, Dijabangshi Das, Chandrabati wrote her `Ramayana’ in Pala form (long balladic poems), which was practiced to be performed by the Boyatis (performers who used to sing these poems through various forms of singing, acting and reciting the story – also confirmed to be the oldest form of theatrical expressions in the region). These orally transmitted poems of hers are still recited among the women folks of the locality.