Bani Basu (b. 1940) is a Sahitya Akademi Award-winning author of contemporary Bengali fiction. A prolific writer, her novels have been regularly published by Desh, the premier literary journal of Bengal. Her major works include Shwet Pathorer Thala, Ekushe Paa, Maitreya Jataka, Gaandhorbee, Pancham Purush and Ashtam Garva. She was awarded the Tarashankar Award for Antarghat (1991) and the Ananda Puraskar for Maitreya Jataka (1996). She is also the recipient of the Sushila Devi Birla Memorial Award and the Sahitya Setu Puraskar. She received the Sahitya Akedemi Award in the year 2010. Her novel Antarghat has been published in translation by Orient BlackSwan as The Enemy Within (2002). She lives in Kolkata.
Suniti Namjoshi (born 1941) is a poet and a fabulist. She grew up in India, worked in Canada and at present lives in the southwest of England with fellow writer, Gillian Hanscombe. Her work is play
A professor emeritus of political science at York University, Toronto, John Saul has had a long and distinguished career as writer, teacher and activist in both Canada and southern Africa. As part
John Callow is the chief librarian of the Marx Memorial Library. He is the author of several books including The King in Exile, The Making of James II and The Triumph and the Tragedy.
Timur Kuran is Professor of Economics and Law, and King Faisal Professor of Islamic Thought and Culture, at the University of Southern California. His books include Private Truths, Public Lies.
Indira Chowdhury was formerly Professor of English at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. A PhD in History from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, her book The Frail Hero and Virile History
