Pb. English and Benga. Little Deepika Dutta, who passed away when she was barely eight, has left behind a body of short poems and sketches, strikingly original for her age. She seemed to feel a special urge to get under the skin of all the creatures and objects that came her way. She yearned to 'be' all that she saw, and in the lines that she wrote and drew she could convey that process of becoming