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Late Nabaneeta Dev Sen was one of the prominent Bengali litterateurs of our times with more than 80 books to her name. A student of Presidency, Jadavpur; Indiana, Harvard, Cambridge, and Berkeley universities, and an outstanding academic, she retired as Professor of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Her works reflect her intellection on an amazing array of social, political, and psychological topics, under different genres like poetry, novels, short stories, plays, literary criticism, travelogues, translations, and children’s literature. Her Radhakrishnan Memorial Lecture series at Oxford University, a pioneering work on women’s Ramayanas, has started a new school of studies on Sita across the world. Founder President of Soi—Women Writers’ Association of West Bengal, she has received national and international awards, including Padma Shri, Sahitya Akademi Award, and Bangla Akademi Lifetime Achievement Award.

Late Tutun Mukherjee was Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad, India and had also taught courses at Centre for Women’s Studies and Department of Theatre Arts in the university. Her specialization was Literary Criticism and Theory and research interests include translation, women’s writing, theatre and film studies. She had written extensively on these subjects which overlap in her work. Besides articles and book chapters in national and international journals, as single author and editor her publications include I.A. Richards’ Contribution to New Criticism; Chicago Critics, an evaluation; jointly edited Companion to Comparative Literature, World Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies, to mention a few. She was on the editorial team of several journals and is a reviewer for publishers.