Mahasweta Debir Shataborsho

Nalini Bera lives in Howrah, West Bengal, and is the author of novels such as Amrit Kalash Yatra, Dui Bhuban, Epar Ganga Opar Ganga, Matir Mridongo and Panchali. He was awarded the Bankim Puraskar in 2008 for his novel Sabar Charit and the Ananda Puraskar in 2019 for Subarnarenu Subarnarekha, which has been translated as Gold Sand, Gold Water.

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.

Tathagata Bhattacharya is a writer, journalist and sustainability expert who divides his time between the plains of Delhi and the mountains of Uttarakhand. He has over two decades of experience in writing and reporting as well as editorial management of diverse teams and media verticals. His current obsession is the mainstreaming of climate change–friendly habitats. He is the only child of cult Bengali writer Nabarun Bhattacharya and the only grandchild of noted playwright-director Bijon Bhattacharya and writer-activist Mahasweta Devi. General Firebrand and His Red Atlas is his first novel.

Swati Bhattacharya is a journalist and research-based writer. Her field of work includes poverty elimination, gender disparity, labour and agriculture along with the school education system. She currently works in the editorial team of Anandabazar Patrika. She has a PhD in Social Sciences from TISS. As a Nehru Fulbright Fellow, she has researched at the ALG Poverty Action Lab, MIT (2010-11). She has published in Nature and many other journals. She has received the  Journalist of Courage and Impact Award (2018) by the East West Center, America. A founder member and former president of South Asian Women in Media (India chapter), she is also the co-author of  Meyeder Vote, Bagher Dudh (along with Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee). She resides in Kolkata and loves travel and tea.