Author:
Buddhadeva Bose (1908-1974) is widely considered to be the successor to Rabindranath Tagore for the versatility and breadth of his literary work. A multifaceted writer and one of the leading lights of modern Bengali literature, Bose combines lyricism with a style of writing uniquely his own to create an unmatched legacy.
Translator:
Arunava Sinha translates classic, modern and contemporary Bengali fiction and non-fiction from Bangladesh and India into English. He also translates fiction from English into Bengali. Over eighty of his translations have been published so far in India, the UK and the USA. He teaches creative writing at Ashoka University, where he is also the co-director of the Ashoka Centre for Translation, and is the Books Editor at Scroll.in.
JABEEN AKHTAR is a Pakistani-American who was born in London and grew up in the United States. She spent seven years writing environmental regulations for the US federal government. She lives in Washington D.C. with her television and two plants. This is her first novel.
www.jabeenakhtar.com
Rudrangshu Mukherjee is a historian and the author of several books. He edits the opinion pages of The Telegraph.
Author:
Buddhadeva Bose (1908-1974) is widely considered to be the successor to Rabindranath Tagore for the versatility and breadth of his literary work. A multifaceted writer and one of the leading lights of modern Bengali literature, Bose combines lyricism with a style of writing uniquely his own to create an unmatched legacy.
Translator:
Arunava Sinha translates classic, modern and contemporary Bengali fiction and non-fiction from Bangladesh and India into English. He also translates fiction from English into Bengali. Over eighty of his translations have been published so far in India, the UK and the USA. He teaches creative writing at Ashoka University, where he is also the co-director of the Ashoka Centre for Translation, and is the Books Editor at Scroll.in.
DANIYAL MUEENUDDIN was brought up in Lahore, Pakistan, and Elroy, Wisconsin. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Yale Law School, his stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Zoetrope, and The Best American Short Stories 2008, selected by Salman Rushdie. His collection In Other Rooms, Other Wonders was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. For a number of years he practiced law in New York. He now divides his time between Oslo, Norway, and his farm in Pakistan’s South Punjab.
Born in 1947 to a Zoroastrian business-family in Bombay, Hoshang Merchant holds a Master’s from Occidental College, Los Angeles. His book on Nin, In-discretions, earned him a Ph.D from Purdue in 1981, and is published by Writers Workshop which has also published eight books of his poetry since 1989. He helped establish the Gay Liberation at Purdue. Rupa and Co. published his book of poems Flower to Flame in 1992 in the New Poetry in India series. Currently he teaches Poetry and Surrealism at Hyderabad University and is unmarried by choice.
Satyajit Das is an internationally respected expert in finance, with over thirty years of experience. He has worked for banks such as Citicorp Investment Bank and Merrill Lynch and acted as a consultant, advising banks, investors, corporations and central banks throughout the world.
He appears regularly in the media in the US, Canada, UK, Australian, New Zealand, India and South Africa.
