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Jayanta Ghosal born in 1962 has been a political journalist for the past four decades. He has worked for the Bengali newspapers Ananda Bazar Patrika and Bartaman TV channels ABP News India TV and is now consulting editor India Today group. Most of his life has been spent in newsrooms. A journalist writer teacher and speaker he is a student of the history politics and culture of West Bengal and eastern India. He has authored several books in Bengali about the region and is also a biographer of West Bengal's chief minister Mamata Banerjee.

Arunava Sinha translates classic modern and contemporary Bengali fiction and non-fiction from Bangladesh and India into English. He also translates fiction from English into Bengali. Over sixty-five of his translations have been published so far in India the UK and the USA. His recent translations include The Sickle by Anita Agnihotri Khwabnama by Akhtaruzzaman Elias and Imaan by Manoranjan Byapari. He was born and grew up in Kolkata and lives and writes in New Delhi. He teaches at Ashoka University and is the books editor at Scroll.in.