Sibaji Bandyopadhyay was professor of cultural studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta and professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He writes poetry, plays, stories, novels and film scripts in Bengali and essays in Bengali and English. He has been awarded the Buddhadeva Bose Memorial Award (2016), the Vidyasagar Memorial Award (2010) and the Sisir Kumar Das Memorial Award (2010). Maharghya Chakraborty is pursuing his doctoral degree at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta, India. He is an avid cinephile, aspiring to be a writer. He has translated Taslima Nasreen’s Nirbasan into English (Exile, 2016).