Sobhona Bhattacharjee

Sobhona Bhattacharjee retired as a teacher from St Edmund’s School, Shillong, where she developed a keen interest in the folk tales of India’s Northeast and beyond and started documenting the oral literature through the people she met in everyday life. Her Khasi Folk Tales was first published in 1979. Although she works extensively on folk tales, her stories are not confined to that. Her first book was Nepali Lokokatha. Her other books are Meghalaya o Mizoram er Lokokatha, Desh Bidesher Lokokotha and an autobiographical sketch of Guwahati, Kichu Smriti Kichu Chobi. All her published works are in Bengali. She is eighty-three years old.

Utsa Bose is an MPhil scholar in Modern South Asian Studies at the University of Oxford. After completing his schooling in Kolkata, he moved to Delhi to study English at St Stephen’s College. His publications include the translated short fictions of Bibhutibhusan Bandopadhyay, Rajshekhar Basu, Manoranjan Byapari and Rabindranath Tagore. He lives in Oxford and divides his time between translation, writing and research.