Mahasweta Devi @ 100

Salil Tripathi was born in Bombay and lives in New York. He is an award-winning journalist and writer who was a correspondent in Southeast Asia and has been a human rights researcher in Africa and Latin America. His latest book, The Gujaratis: A Portrait of a Community, was long-listed for the Kamladevi Chattopadhyaya NIF prize for non-fiction and is short-listed for the History Literature Prize. His previous works include Offence: The Hindu Case and The Colonel Who Would Not Repent (which was long-listed for the Tata Literature Festival prize). He is the co-editor of For, In Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit, a collection of writings from and about prison, with artist Shilpa Gupta. He is on the board of PEN International and chairs the Jury of the Disturbing the Peace Prize given by the Vaclav Havel Center in New York.

Ankhi Mukherjee is Professor of English and World Literature at the University of Oxford and Fellow in English at Wadham College. Her teaching and research specialisms lie in Victorian Literature, Culture, Postcolonial Studies and Intellectual History. She is currently teaching at the Institute of World Literature at Harvard University.

Sohini Chattopadhyay is a National Award-winning film critic, award-winning journalist and a teacher of writing. Her book The Day I Became a Runner offers an alternate, women’s history of independent India through the lens of sport. She is now working on a biography of Mahasweta Devi.