Chinmoy Guha

Chinmoy Guha is Professor of English and Former Head, Department of English, at the University of Calcutta. He has also been the Vice-Chancellor of Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, and the Director of Publications, Embassy of France in India in New Delhi. A leading essayist in Bengali and a distinguished translator of French literature, he was the editor of book reviews of the Bengali literary magazines, Desh and Boier Desh. His works include two collections of essays in Bengali (Chilekothhar Unmadini and Garho Shankher Khonje), The Tower and the Sea: Romain Rolland-Kalidas Nag Correspondence and two anthologies of 20th century French poetry. He is the recipient of several prestigious awards including the Knighthood of Academic Palms from France.