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Bratya Basu is an Indian actor, stage director, playwright, film director, professor, educationist and politician who has been the Education Minister of West Bengal since 2021. He has been conferred the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2021 for outstanding work in literature for his anthology Mir Jafar O Onanyo Natak (Bengali). At present, he is the Chairperson of Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi and Minerva Natyasanskriti Charchakendra

Srijato was born in a family steeped in music and literature. His first collection of poetry, Shesh Chithhi, was published in 1999. He won the Ananda Puraskar and the Krittibash Puraskar for his poetry volume Udanta Sawb Joker (2004). His other awards include the Bangla Academy Samman (2014), Pashchimbanga Kabita Academy’s Sunil Gangopadhyay Award (2020) and the Government of West Bengal’s Bangabhushan (2022). He has also written novels, songs and screenplays. He has represented Bengali poetry at many forums, both nationally and internationally including Iowa University’s International Writers Workshop, Edinburgh International Book Fair and the Hay Festival in Wales. He debuted as a film director in 2023. He has also curated the monsoon-themed festival Kolkata Baarish in 2024 and 2025.

Sanjoy Mukhopadhyay is academician, author, translator and public speaker. He is widely acknowledged as a Ritwik Ghatak scholar. He was Professor of film studies at Jadavpur University from the inception of the department. He headed the department for more than eight years. He was also the director of the School of Media, Communication & Cultural Studies of Jadavpur University. Additionally, he also acted as Director and CEO of Roopkala Kendra, a state-run film and social communication institute in Kolkata for three years. He is known for his critical discourse on cultural modernity and has published and presented numerous national and international papers. He has also published a number of books and been represented in several anthologies.

Shamya Dasgupta is a sports journalist by profession, currently working as deputy editor with ESPNcricinfo, and a cinema enthusiast. He’s the author of Don’t Disturb the Dead: The Story of the Ramsay Brothers (2017) and two books on sports, Bhiwani Junction: The Untold Story of Boxing in India (2012) and Cricket Changed My Life: Stories of Hope and Despair from the IPL and Elsewhere (2014). He translated Mahasweta Devi’s Laayl-e Aasmaaner Aayna into English (Mirror of the Darkest Night, 2019). Unmechanical: Ritwik Ghatak in 50 Fragments brings together essays by his collaborators, family, academics who study him and writers who admire him to celebrate Ghatak on his centenary through reflections and expressions of love.

Educated at Presidency College, Kolkata, and the Universities of Calcutta and Cambridge, Jayanta Sengupta is Director, Alipore Museum, and former Director of the Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata. Before joining the museum profession, he taught History at Jadavpur University and the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of At the Margins: Discourses of Development, Democracy and Regionalism in Orissa (Oxford University Press, 2015), Those Noble Edifices: The Raj Bhavans of Bengal (Victoria Memorial Hall, 2019) and two books of essays in Bengali. He is also co-editor of The Long History of Partition in Bengal: Event, Memory, Representations (Routledge, 2024).