 Dutt died young, at age 21, which has influenced some comparison of her to the poet John Keats.Toru Dutt was born in Calcutta on 4 March 1856 in a Bengali family that had converted to Christianity.Her father was Govind Chandra Dutt and her mother was Kshetramoni Dutt (nee Mitter), of the Rambagan Dutt family.