Critical appreciation of Lakshman Toru Dutt had a thorough knowledge of India's traditional past and this had given her a strong foundation for a better superstructure to be constructed over the edifice. In the stories of the Ramayana , the Mahabharata , the Vishnu Purana and Srimadbhagavat , Toru Dutt found ric…

“ Our Casuarina Tree is more than the poetic evocation of a tree; it is recapturing the past, and immortalizing the moments of time so recaptured. The tree is both tree and symbol, and in it implicated both time and eternity.” -K. R. Srinivasa Iyenger, Indian Writing in English Toru Dutt has left behi…