Dr. Manjira Dasgupta is attached with the Department of Business Economics, M. S. University of Baroda. She has a number of international as well as national publications, and conference presentations at both international and national levels. Her areas of interest are Development Macroeconomics and Public Finance. Although an economics teacher by vocation, Dr. Dasgupta’s real passion lies in literature. She has scripted and conducted presentations based on the works of Rabindranath Tagore, the poet laureate. She also finds immense fulfillment in translating Tagore’s work into English so as to reach a large number of readers for whom Bengali is inaccessible but who would love to read and know the poet.

A bilingual writer and translator, Bishnupriya holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Florida, USA. She completed her Masters in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University, and has Bachelor’s degree in English literature from Burdwan University, India.