Durgabati Ghose: was born in 1905 into a prosperous Bengali family. Her father Girindra Sekhar Basu was the founder of the Indian Psychoanalytical Society. She accompanied her husband on a trip to Europe in 1932, and wrote about her trip in a book title Paschimjatriki. A very loving, considerate and liberal woman, she was loved and revered by everyone in the family till her death on 11 January 1992.
Pankaj Mishra is an award-winning essayist, travel writer and novelist. He is the author of The Romantics (1999). His most recent book is Age of Anger: A History of the Present (2017).
Mahitosh Mandal is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Presidency University, Kolkata. His research interests include Dalit studies and psychoanalysis.
