Contributors

Paromita Sengupta (Issue Editor), PhD, English is an academic, author, translator with a keen interest in independent filmmaking. Her book publications include an edition of The Persecuted, (the first drama to be written in the English language by an Indian, Revd. K. M. Banerjea), Bimukta (published by Eka, Westland Amazon in March 2020), a Bengali translation of The Liberation of Sita, a Sahitya Akademi Award winning collection of short stories by Volga. Paromita’s translation of Dalit writer Sharan Kumar Limbale’s novel Sanatan, is currently under publication process from Penguin. At present, Paromita lives in Limerick, Ireland, and is working as Director of Studies in Griffith College Limerick.

Kamla Bhasin (24 April 1946 – 25 September 2021) was an Indian feminist activist, poet, author and social scientist, whose work, which began in 1970, focused on gender education, human development and the media. She is best known for her work with Sangat – A Feminist Network.

Paulami Sengupta is a publishing professional based in Kolkata, India. Her poems (in English and Bengali) and translations have been published in The Dreaming Machine, Nether, Cold Noon, and The Sunflower Literary Collective. One of her poems has been selected for Rucksack: Global Poetry Patchwork Project, curated by Antje Stehn and Mamata Sagar. She has co-translated the Bengali edition of Salome: Woman of Valour by Adeena Karasick (Boibhashik Publications, 2020). Her recent collection of Bengali poems (under her pen name Anjashi) is titled Bayosandhir Haraf (Boibhashik Publications, 2021).

Anuradha Mazumder is an Assistant Professor of English at Prafulla Chandra College, Kolkata. An alumna of Presidency College, Kolkata, she did her Masters in English Literature from the University of Calcutta and completed her M. Phil. in English Literature from Jadavpur University. She is currently a Ph.D. research scholar at the University of Burdwan, West Bengal. Her areas of academic interest include Victorian Studies, Holocaust Studies, Indian English Writing, and literature’s interface with cinema and popular culture. She is the author of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice: With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes (2018), published by Authorspress, New Delhi. Her poetry and short fiction have been published in Setu, Muse India, Saaranga-English, and Café Dissensus. ORCID ID – 0000-0002-2732-3761.

Barsha Mondal is currently pursuing MA in English Literature and Language at Calcutta University. Reading, writing, and painting has always been an inseparable part of her life. Her research interests include studies on Border relations, Holocaust and Crime fiction.

Sreya Mukherjee (MA, EFLU) is a Junior Research Fellow at the Department of Indian and World Literatures in EFLU (English and Foreign Languages University), Hyderabad. She is working on the representation of motherhoods in the Indian epics for her doctoral research. Her areas of interest are mythology, women’s writing, translation studies and postcolonial literature.

Prithvijeet Sinha is from Lucknow, India. He is a postgraduate with MPhil from the University of Lucknow, having launched his prolific writing career by self-publishing on the worldwide community Wattpad since 2015 and on his WordPress blog, An Awadh Boy’s Panorama. His works have been published in varied publications. His life force resides in writing.

Chandrakala Ghosh (she/her) completed her MA in English Literature from St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata in May 2023, and finished First Class second. She has presented papers in international and national conferences and workshops organized by institutions like Jadavpur University, University of Calcutta, and Lady Brabourne College. Her interests include gender studies, postcolonialism, poetry and Indian theatre studies.

Dr. Ketaki Datta is a W.B.E.S, West Bengal. She is a novelist, poet, translator and reviewer. She has two novels to her credit and one of her translated novels has been published by Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi. Her latest publication is on Toto tribe, published by Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi. She has quite a few academic books to her credit. She went to Lisbon, Oxford and Santa Barbara, California, to present academic papers in international conferences.

Ramsha Aveen is a Ph.D. scholar of Sociology at Jamia Millia Islamia.

Amarinder Gill is an academician employed with the Education Department, Chandigarh. She holds a doctorate from the Department of Sociology, Punjab University. Her areas of interest are Gender Studies and Rural Sociology.

Dr. Antara Mukherjee is associated with West Bengal Educational Service, Govt of West Bengal and is currently teaching English Literature at Durgapur Government College, Durgapur, Paschim Bardhaman. She loves to travel, observe, listens to the winds and rains in an attempt to self-medicate herself.

Painting: Halyna Mur

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