Moushumi Kandali

Moushumi Kandali is a bilingual short story writer, art historian and translator. Her stories have been published in several national and international literary magazines and edited anthologies such as ‘Oxford anthology of North East Writing’, ‘Penguin anthology of fifteen classic Assamese short stories’, ‘The Greatest Assamese Stories Ever Told’ published by Aleph Book Company and many others. She has received several prestigious awards for her creative writing.

Parbina Rashid is a senior journalist with the Tribune, Chandigarh. She has translated a number of books from Assamese to English, namely, Painting of the Sky and Other Stories, Ballad of Kaziranga, If a River and Echoes from the Valley. Her latest translated story has been included in an anthology titled The Greatest Assamese Stories Ever Told, and also been published by Little Magazine, The Sentinel and Nezine.com. She has been associated with Sahitya Akademi, Delhi, in the capacity of a translator and book editor. She hails from Guwahati and is currently based in Chandigarh.