Hemlata Mahishwar is Head and Professor at the Department of Hindi, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi. She is the author of a poetry collection, Samyak Marg (The Right Path) , an anthology of stories Beech Dakhal Bedakhal and criticism, Stri Lekhan Aur Samay Ke Sarokaar and Unki Jijivika Unka Dangarsha, both published by Hindi Book Centre in 2006.

Mridula Nath Chakraborty has edited Being Bengali: at home and in the world, an enquiry into the intellectual history of this linguistic group from Bangladesh and India (Routledge 2014). She is the co-editor of Abohelaar Bhangon Naame Booke / Broken by Neglect, a bilingual edition of Nunga poet Ali Cobby Eckermann’s poetry from English to Bengali (2014) and A Treasury of Bangla Stories (1997). Most recently, she has convened high-impact projects in literary-cultural diplomacy between Australia and India, such as Australia-India Literatures International Forum (Sydney 2013), the Autumn School in Literary Translation (Kolkata 2013) and Literary Commons: Writing Australia-India in the Asian Century with Indigenous, Dalit and Multilingual Tongues (2014-2016).