Ghost Writing

Daisy Rockwell is an artist, writer and Hindi-Urdu translator living in Vermont. Her translations have garnered several notable honours including the International Booker Prize for translation Tomb of Sand, the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, the MLA Aldo and Jean Scaglione Prize for Translation of a Literary Work and the Wisconsin Prize for Poetry in Translation. Alice Sees Ghosts is her new novel. Her forthcoming books include Mixed Metaphors, her collection of creative non-fiction and poems, and her memoir, Our Friend, Art.

Arundhati Nath’s debut collection of short-story translations, The Phantom’s Howl: Classic Tales of Ghosts and Hauntings from Bengal, was published in February 2025. She has almost three decades of experience in content writing, editing, event curation and marketing. Having begun her career as an editor in leading publishing houses and led programming at FICCI Frames, she is currently Director of Content and Communication at Teamwork Arts, producer of the iconic Jaipur Literature Festival and other well-known cultural and literary experiences across the world and India. She also curates and produces Teamwork Arts’ series on tech and innovation, Be Inspired, held in partnership with the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India. She is working on her next book – another supernatural anthology.

Debanjan Chakrabarti is Director, British Council, East and Northeast India, and was the UK’s in-post lead for the culture track of G20 in 2023. He is a co-supervisor for the Oxford-Cambridge-Open University Collaborative Doctoral Award on ‘Multilingual teaching, learning and assessment of English in India’s primary schools,’ which is a partnership with the British Council. He has a background in research, especially in public policy, and has scoped and scouted two landmark research projects for the British Council – The Creative Economy Mapping of Durga Puja in West Bengal on behalf of the state government of West Bengal in India and a Cambridge University-led project on multilingualism  in Indian primary schools. A triple gold medallist in English literature from Jadavpur University, India, he has a multidisciplinary PhD, combining literature, films and media studies, from the University of Reading, UK, for which he received a Felix Scholarship from India. He started his career as a journalist with The Telegraph and then taught literature, culture and films at Visva Bharati University in India and in the UK early in his career. He has a number of scholarly and journalistic publications to his name. He retains an active interest in sports, especially tennis and cricket, and often writes and speaks on related topics for media publications and literature festivals.