Rashmi Govind

Rashmi Govind was born in Chhapra, Bihar, into a scholarly family. She took her degrees in English at the University of Delhi, and in Linguistics at Jawaharlal Nehru University. She taught English at Zakir Husain Delhi College for over four decades and has translated several texts into English from Hindi and Urdu.
The Song of the Loom, her translation from the original Hindi Jhini Jhini Bini Chadariya by Abdul Bismilla, has been published by Macmillan. She has translated Hindi short stories by Rajendra Yadav, Bhisham Sahni, Nirmal Verma and Anwar Qamar, and an Urdu one by Zaheda Hina, into English.

Sukrita Paul Kumar

Joginder Paul

Joginder Paul (1925-2016) was a highly renowned and award-winning writer of Urdu fiction. A writer of both short stories and novels, Paul was an important figure in the Progressive Writers’ Movement, and his work has garnered praise and popularity in the realm of Urdu literature. Ek Boond Lahoo Ki (published in Penguin Classics as A Drop of Blood) was his first novel and remains one of his most significant works.

Snehal Shingavi is associate professor of English at the University of Texas, Austin, and the author of The Mahatma Misunderstood: The Politics and Forms of Literary Nationalism in India (Anthem Books, 2013). He has also translated Munshi Premchand’s Hindi novel Sevasadan (Oxford, 2005), the Urdu short-story collection Angaaray (Penguin, 2014), Bhisham Sahni’s autobiography, Today’s Pasts (Penguin, 2015) and Agyeya’s Shekhar: A Life (Penguin, 2017; co-translated with Vasudha Dalmia). He has also published widely in places like GQ India, the International Socialist Review, Postcolonial Text, South Asia and the Annual of Urdu Studies.