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Bratati Bandopadhay is a Bengali language elocutionist. She is the founder head of Kabyayan, an institution for practising elocution and Bratati Parampara, an organization that works on elocution and other forms of performing arts. She has delivered over 2000 poetry recitals in India and abroad and been invited to perform by several countries around the world. She has been associated with Doordarshan as a newscaster and HMV as a regular artist. She mentors schoolchildren and senior students in elocution and is a proponent of the power of culture therapy.

Biswajit Ray is a professor of Bangla at Visva-Bharati in Santiniketan. His books on Tagore include Sab Prabandha Rajnaitik, Sachalatar Gan and Rabindranath O Vivekananda: Swadeshe Samakale. He has written in The Cambridge Companion to Rabindranath Tagore. Beyond his academic contributions, he is widely recognised for his prose and newspaper columns. His novel, Tambuli-Akhyan, received widespread acclaim from readers.

Semanti Ghosh is an Associate Editor, and Head, Editorial Department at Anandabazar Patrika, Kolkata, India. A historian by training, she attended Presidency College, Calcutta University and received her PhD from Tufts University, USA. Her published books include Different Nationalisms: Bengal 1905-47, Swajati Swadesher Khonje and Deshbhag: Smriti ar Stabdhata (ed). Her articles have been published in several English and Bengali volumes. She is currently working on a political biography of Deshbandhu CR Das. In the field of journalism, she writes regular columns on national and international politics and social issues.