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Aruna Chakravarti is a keen academician and a scholar and translator
of repute. She has presented papers at several national and international
seminars and contributed articles and reviews in many collections and
journals. Her translation of Saratchandra Chatterjee’s Srikanta,
published by Penguin Books India in 1993, fetched her the prestigious
Sahitya Akademi Award. Those Days, a translation of Sunil
Gangopadhyay’s Sei Samai, published by Penguin Books India in 1997,
received rave reviews and became a best-seller. This was followed in
2001 by First Light, a sequel to Those Days.
Aruna Chakravarti is the principal of Janki Devi Memorial College,
Delhi, and has taught in this college for over forty years.
This is her first novel.
