Shyamal Bhattacharya, born in Agartala (1964), holds a Masters degrees in Hindi and Public Administration and a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism. Received honorary Doctorate (Vidyabachaspati) from Vikramshila Hindi Vidyapeeth, Ujjawain, Madhya Paradesh. Besides Bengali he knows Hindi, English, Punjabi, Dogri...
Anindya Chatterjee is a famous Bengali film director, music composer, singer, lyricist , actor and producer based in Kolkata. He is the singer-lyricist of Bengali band Chandrabindoo .In recent times he has composed multifarious songs in Bengali mainstream films as...
Koushik Sen is a renowned actor known for his work across film, television, OTT and theatre, based in Kolkata. He is the founder and director of the theatre group Swapnasandhani. He won the Bengal Film Journalists’ Association Award for Best...
Nabanita Sengupta is an academic, translator and creative writer with several publications. Her latest publication is Bandaged Moments, a co-edited volume of translated stories on mental health by Indian women authors. She has two books of translation and a volume...
Anindya Purakayastha is a Professor at the School of Translation and Cultural Studies, ILSR Kolkata. He was the 2021 Charles Wallace India Trust Translation Fellow of the British Centre for Literary Translation, University of East Anglia. UK. Prof. Purakayastha is...
Anubha Fatehpuria is a Kolkata-based practising architect and theatre and movie -actor. Anubha has received several awards including Sangeet Natak Akademi’s Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puruskar, and Shyamal Sen Smriti Puraskar in the past for her contribution to theatre acting.
In the multi-dimensional world of Indian literature and theater, Anjum Katyal stands as an important voice—a writer, editor, translator, and festival director.Having worn multiple hats, including Chief Editor at Seagull Books and Web Editor at Saregama-HMV, her expertise illuminates not...
Kanishka Gupta runs Writer’s Side Literary Agency, the leading South Asian agency he founded in India. His authors have most recently won the International Booker Prize in 2025 and 2022, and shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2020. Among his...
V. Ramaswamy is a non-fiction writer and translator based in Kolkata, India. As an activist working for the rights of the labouring poor, Ramaswamy has written about workers, squatters, slums, poverty, housing and resettlement, and has been at the forefront...