Rupleena Bose

Rupleena Bose is an Associate Professor of English Literature at Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi. Her acclaimed debut novel Summer of Then (Penguin Random House, 2024) is set between cities and seasons, the personal and political, moving between a woman’s interiority to the nation outside. She has a doctorate in Urban New Wave Bangla Music of the Nineties. She has written fiction and non-fiction screenplays which have shown in film festivals across the world and won several awards including the National Film Award. She has also directed a short documentary Black Humour under the PSBT film fellowship. She has been the recipient of the Charles Wallace Scholarship for writing. After hours she writes on cinema and music for The Hindu, The Hindu Blink, HT, Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), Open, Biblio, The Print and others. She is currently working on an archive and songbook of river songs from Bengal. She divides her life and livelihood between Aldona, Goa and Delhi.