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Sudha G. Tilak has worked as a journalist in India and abroad. She has written non-fiction and has had short stories published in literary magazines. This is her first work of translation.

NANDAKUMAR K. is a Dubai-based translator. His co-translation of M. Mukundan’s Delhi Gadhaka
(Delhi: A Soliloquy) won the 2021 JCB Prize for Literature. His other translations include A Thousand Cuts, the autobiography of Professor T.J. Joseph, which won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award; The Lesbian Cow and Other Stories by Indu Menon; and In the Name of the Lord, the autobiography of Sr Lucy Kalapura. Nandakumar is the grandson of Mahakavi Vallathol Narayana Menon.

MINISTHY S. is an IAS officer working in the Uttar Pradesh cadre. She translates between three languages: Malayalam, English and Hindi. She has translated three novels by V.J. James: Anti Clock, which was shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature 2021, Nireeswaran and Dattapaharam, all published by Penguin Random House India.

Radha Chakravarty is a writer, critic and translator. She is Professor of Comparative Literature & Translation Studies at Ambedkar University, Delhi. She has co-edited The Essential Tagore (Harvard and Visva-Bharati), nominated Book of the Year 2011 by Martha Nussbaum for The New Statesman. She is the author of Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers (2008) and Novelist Tagore (Routledge, 2013). She has also translated several of Tagore’s works, including Gora, Boyhood Days, Chokher Bali, Farewell Song: Shesher Kabita and The Land of Cards: Stories, Poems and Plays for Children. Other works in translation include Bankimchandra Chatterjee’s Kapalkundala, In the Name of the Mother by Mahasweta Devi, and Crossings: Stories from Bangladesh and India. She has edited Bodymaps: Stories by South Asian Women and co-edited Tagore the Eternal Seeker: Footprints of a World Traveller, Writing Feminism: South Asian Voices and Writing Freedom: South Asian Voices. Shades of Difference: Selected Writings of Rabindranath Tagore is an edited volume forthcoming from the Social Science Press. Her essays and review articles have appeared in books and periodicals worldwide.

Vinayak Garg is the founder of Lazy Gardener, a company and community that has inspired thousands of Indians and people around the world to take up home gardening. He was named the ‘Sustainability Hero of 2020’ by The Better India.

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Veejay Sai is an award-winning author, editor, biographer, translator and culture critic. He has written extensively on the Indian performing arts traditions and practitioners for over two decades. He has been documenting the cultural history of India. He lives in New Delhi.