Samudrer Daak

Aparajita Dasgupta is a historian of gender and an author of fiction in Bengali. She studied in Presidency College and the University of Calcutta and taught previously in various government colleges in West Bengal and at St Mary’s College, USA, as a Fulbright Visiting Professor. She is currently CEO of West Bengal State Book Board, Kolkata. Her book, For Home, Family, and Country: Women and the Politics of Gender in Bengal, 1870-1947, was published in 2025. Over two decades, her creative writing in Bengali has produced 12 books, including novels, short stories, essays, autobiographical vignettes and children’s stories.

Rik Sengupta is a mathematician and theoretical computer scientist who studied in South Point School, Princeton University, M.I.T., and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and now works as a research scientist in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is an avid fan of literature, music (especially the Beatles), cricket, films, magic, crosswords, juggling, puzzles and mysteries, and dabbles in several of them in a good way.

Agnijit Sen, popularly known as Mirchi Agni, is a content creator with Radio Mirchi and Revsportz Bangla. He currently acts in and directs the audiobook series Sunday Suspense and also serves as the Head of Content, Revsportz Bangla. He was one of the lead actors in the first Bangla social media viral series, O Maa Go. Known for his wit and sense of humour, he is a prolific on-stage host and has moderated several large-scale events.