In the year 2014, when I first met Dr. Dilip Chakraborty, he was only 77. I was then completing my 50th and it was my maiden year in Canada. Every week I would get opportunities to meet many new people, and successfully utilise my time in networking with them. One day Sujit Kusum Paul, who was by then not yet recognised as a Yeats scholar,

To an immigrant Canadian, it is really a very tough question ‘Which are the best novels in Canadian Literature’ or ‘Who are the most celebrated poets of the country?’ or ‘Who are the most loved Canadian memoirists?’ or ‘Which playwrights overwhelmed the nation?’ Is it at all easy to reply for an immigrant ‘Which are the frequently uttered poetic lines written in the Canadian soil?’