Samir Kumar Das is Professor of Political Science and currently the Dean, Faculty of Arts at the University of Calcutta, Kolkata. Formerly Vice-Chancellor of the University of North Bengal, he is a member and Honorary Senior Researcher of the Calcutta Research Group (CRG).
Shivaji K. Panikkar teaches at the School of Culture and Creative Expressions, Ambedkar University Delhi, Delhi. His publications include Saptamatrka Worship and Sculpture: An Iconological Interpre
Ashapurna Debi was born in 1909. Her conservative family did not send her to school, but encouraged by her mother, she learnt to read and write on her own and published her first poem in the childrenâ
