Arunava Sinha
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Arunava Sinha
Arunava Sinha translates classic, modern and contemporary Bengali fiction and non-fiction into English. Sixty-one of his translations have been published so far. Twice the winner of the Crossword Book Award for Best Translation, for Sankar’s Chowringhee (2007) and Anita Agnihotri’s Seventeen (2011), respectively, and the winner of the Muse India translation award (2013) for Buddhadeva Bose’s When The Time Is Right, he has also been shortlisted for The Independent Foreign Fiction prize (2009) for his translation of Chowringhee and for the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative Translated YA Book Prize for his translation of Md Zafar Iqbal’s Rasha, and longlisted for the Best Translated Book award, USA, 2018, for his translation of Bhaskar Chakravarti’s Things That Happen and Other Poems. His translation of Manoranjan Byapari’s Batashe Baruder Gandha (There’s Gunpowder in the Air) was shortlisted in 2019 for the JCB Prize for Literature, the Crossword Book Award, the Mathrubhumi Book of the Year Prize and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Besides India, his translations have been published in the UK and the USA in English, and in several European and Asian countries through further translation. He is an associate professor of practice in the Creative Writing department at Ashoka University.
- The Book of DhakaINR 295
Dhaka may be one of the most densely populated cities in the world – noisy, grid-locked, short on public amenities, and blighted with sprawling slums – but, as these stories show, it is...
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Rossen Djagalov
Rossen Djagalov is an assistant professor of Russian at New York University, a research fellow of the Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities, HSE , Moscow, and
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Vandana Singh
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Abhishek Majumdar is the founder and artistic director of Indian Ensemble. He is a playwright and theatre director and educator with numerous plays and accolades to his credit. His playwr
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M.R. SHARAN
M.R. SHARAN grew up in Manipal in Karnataka, then a quiet university town sandwiched between the hills andthe sea. He loves reading, cricket, writing, music and quantitative research on development
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Sehar Iqbal
Sehar Iqbal is an independent researcher working at the intersection between research and grassroot development work in Jammu and Kashmir. She completed her PhD in Development Economics i
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Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) was a German Marxist poet, playwright and theatre practitioner. He was forced into exile in 1933, returning from the United States to Switzerland in 1947, and to East B
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