Srimati Priyadarshini Lal (born Calcutta, India) was an artist, poet, writer, art critic, art authenticator and curator. She held over twenty exhibitions of her art internationally. She was the author of three books of poetry: The Window (Writers Workshop, 1986), Six Poems (London, 1997) and The Warriors: I Guerrieri, published in English and Italian (London, 2006). Srimati Lal also wrote about F. N. Souza and India's Contemporary Art Movement for the volume Culture, Society and Development in India (2009) and published an Anthology of Indo-Anglian Writers, Flowers For My Father: Tributes to P. Lal (2011).