Chandra, the first woman poet in Bangala, lived in the sixteenth century in my men Singh district in present day Bangladesh. She was also the first poet in the Bangle language to present a retelling of the Ram story from the point of view of Sita. Idolized as a model of marital obedience and chastity in Valmiki Ramayan, chandrabati’s lyrical retelling of Sita’s stotry offers us a fresh perspective. Written in order to be sung before a non-courtly audience, mainly of womenfolk of rural Bengal, chandrabati’s Ramayan adds new characters and situations to the story to provide new interpretations of already known events drawing richly on elements of existing genres. Its location in the tales of everyday life has ensured that chandrabati’s Ramayan lives on in the hearts of village women of modern day India.