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 a DPhil candidate in History at the University of Oxford. He completed his MPhil in Modern South Asian Studies from Oxford and his BA in English from St Stephen’s College, New Delhi. His publications include the translations of Bibhutibhusan Bandyopadhyay, Rajshekhar Basu, Rabindranath Tagore and Manoranjan Byapari, as well as an original short story published in Indian Literature, the journal of Sahitya Akademi. He lives in Oxford and divides his time between writing, translation and research.