Bandyopadhyay Sangeeta Sinha Arunava

Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay is a newspaper columnist and film critic. She lives and writes in Kolkata. When Panty was first published in Bengali, it created a furore - a reaction that is par for the course for her. Her controversial first novel Shankini made for an explosive debut. Since then she has published nine novels and over fifty short stories.Arunava Sinha translates fiction, poetry and non-fiction from Bengali to English, and from English to Bengali. Over sixty of his translations have been published so far, and several of them have won or been shortlisted for Indian and international awards.