Meet the Team
Partha Pratim Roy
Chief Co-ordinator
Partha Pratim Roy
Chief Co-ordinator
Rituparna Khan
Co-ordinator
Rituparna Khan
Co-ordinator
Anand S. Bose
Co-ordinator (School events)
Anand S. Bose
Co-ordinator (School events)
Author and literary content creator Anand S. Bose, a retired IT professional, seized the transformative moment of the pandemic to step away from his 9-to-5 corporate life and embrace his lifelong calling as an artist and writer. Even before his successful IT career-where he collaborated with some of the world’s largest Fortune 500 companies-Anand nurtured a profound passion for literary arts and drama, a talent that shone brightly since his school days.
Life’s currents had pulled him toward technology, where he spent decades working with major IT firms to build a stable livelihood. Yet, beneath the surface of boardrooms and deadlines, his love for storytelling remained a quiet, unyielding flame, patiently awaiting its moment to blaze. When the pandemic and shifting global tides disrupted the world, Anand recognized the rare juncture to bid farewell to a job he respected but knew was not his soul’s true path.
Freed from the shackles of routine, he dove headfirst into his passions: theatrical arts, cinematic screenwriting, evocative stage plays, and soul-stirring poetry. With a degree in Political Science and a natural affinity for Anthropology, Anand’s writing weaves magic through nonviolent romantic narratives, timeless classics that explore family bonds and relationship dynamics, and beloved science fiction epics inspired by Star Wars and Planet of the Apes.
Anand’s journey is a heartfelt reminder that it’s never too late to reclaim the dreams we once set aside-a story of courage, rediscovery, and the enduring power of the human spirit to create beauty from life’s unexpected turns.
Anindita Bose
Co-ordinator (Events)
Anindita Bose
Co-ordinator (Events)
Anindita Bose, born in Calcutta, is a creative professional, healer, and academician. A practicing Tarot Reader, she is also an acclaimed poet, author, and translator, with five poetry collections, two short story collections, and one non-fiction work to her credit. She works independently as a scriptwriter, subtitle writer, translator of Bengali literature, and voiceover artist for short films, audiobooks, and documentaries.
She is the Co-founder of Rhythm Divine Poets, Editor of EKL Review, and Festival Manager of Chair Poetry Evenings, Kolkata’s International Poetry Festival. Anindita is an active seminar speaker and mentors students and professionals in Study Abroad programs, Communication English, Soft Skills, and Personality Development.
In recognition of her contributions to literature and culture, she was invited and felicitated in 2023 by Bangla Akademi at Kobita Utsav, Kolkata, and by the Udaygiri Foundation, Bhubaneswar.
She serves as Visiting Faculty for Professional English and Personality Development at institutions including Erudite, Orion Edutech, NSHM, GIMS (Noida), and SITM.
Her creative interests include event creation and hosting, book launches, workshops, audiobooks, podcast hosting, and film production and subtitling for notable projects such as Haati Haati Pa Pa, CHAAD – The Terrace (NFDC), Durgapur Junction, and several short films.
Dr. Amit Shankar Saha
Chief executive editor
Dr. Amit Shankar Saha
Chief executive editor
Editors
Dr. Aparna Singh
Editor, English
Dr. Aparna Singh
Editor, English
Dr. Aparna Singh is an academician, researcher, editor, and creative writer with a specialization in Dalit Literature and Indian Writing in English. She holds an M.A. in English from the University of Calcutta and was awarded a Ph.D. in 2018 for her doctoral work titled “Representing Dalits: Reading Insider/Outsider Narratives”, under the supervision of Prof. Sanjukta Dasgupta.
She has presented papers at numerous national and international conferences and has chaired academic sessions at UGC-sponsored international seminars. Her editorial contributions include several scholarly volumes on literature, culture, and marginality published by Paschimbanga Anchalik Itihas O Loksanskriti Charcha Kendra.
A widely published scholar, her research appears in reputed peer-reviewed and Scopus-indexed journals and edited volumes by leading academic publishers such as Routledge and Worldview Publications. Her work engages deeply with caste, gender, nation, memory, translation, and marginal literatures.
She has served as external examiner, subject expert, Ph.D. examiner, and invited lecturer at several universities and colleges across India. She has also worked as a copyeditor for Sahitya Akademi.
Alongside academic writing, she is a poet and fiction writer, and the author of the short story collection Periodic Tales, which received a Special Mention at the Nissim International Prize for Literature (2023).
Jagari Mukherjee
Editor, English
Jagari Mukherjee
Editor, English
Nishi Pulugurtha
Editor, English
Nishi Pulugurtha
Editor, English
The winner of the Women Empowered Gifted Poet Award (2020), Jagari Mukherjee is the Founder and Chief Executive Editor of the literary journal, EKL Review, and the Editor-in-Chief of Narrow Road. She is an Assistant Professor and the Head of the Department of Humanities at Kalyani Government Engineering College. She has authored six solo collections of poetry (two chapbooks and four full-length volumes). Her most recent publication is Woman and the Moon by Hawakal Publishers. She has won several prestigious awards, including the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize for Book Review (2018); the Reuel International Prize For Poetry (2019); the Jury Prize at Friendswood Library’s Ekphrastic Poetry Reading And Contest (2021); and also, The Bharat International Award for Literature 2022 For Short Story. Her book, The Elegant Nobody published by Hawakal was shortlisted for the prestigious Tagore Prize in 2022. She has read her poetry at many festivals and venues in India and abroad.
Nishi Pulugurtha is academic, author, poet, editor and translator. She is Head and Associate Professor in English at Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College, Kolkata with several academic publications.
Her writings include a collection of essays on travel, Out in the Open; an edited volume of essays on travel, Across and Beyond; three volumes of poems, The Real and the Unreal and Other Poems, Raindrops on the Periwinkle, Looking; a co-edited volume of poems Voices and Vision: The First IPPL Anthology, two collections of short stories The Window Sill and Framed; an edited anthology of short stories The Virasat Anthology of Short Stories; an edited volume of critical essays, Literary Representations of Pandemics, Epidemics and Pestilence; a volume of essays written during the pandemic, Lockdown Times and a co-edited volume of translated short stories from Indian languages, Bandaged Moments.
Her book on food, a volume of poems, a volume of translations and a volume of essays are forthcoming.
She has been Writer in Residence, Samyukta Research Foundation, Thiruvananthapuram. She is the Secretary of the Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library, Kolkata, Advisory Board Member of Alzheimer’s and Related Disorders Society of India, Calcutta Chapter and was Chief Editor of Antonym Magazine for 2025.
Rahul Chakraborty
Editor, Bengali
Rahul Chakraborty
Editor, Bengali
Rahul Chakraborty is an alumnus of Calcutta University (Hons. in Economics). He was associated with Ananda Bazar Group of Publications for more than 30 years. He has extensive experience in editing and content writing.
Mr Chakraborty is an avid book lover. He comes from a lineage of intellectually enriched ancestors. His father was an active participant in the Indian Freedom Struggle in the 1930s and 40s. His mother was an active member of Mahila Samity. An early introduction to politics opened the way for Rahul to explore Socialism and Marxism at a young age. He is a voracious reader and loves collecting books. Along with reading Rahul has dipped his toes in the world of fine arts. A modest artist himself, he enjoys collecting artistic and culturally significant pieces.
Dr. Sanjukta Dasgupta
Editor, English
Dr. Sanjukta Dasgupta
Editor, English
Dr. Sanjukta Dasgupta, Former Head, and Former Dean Faculty of Arts, Calcutta University Dept. of English, has been the recipient of the Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship and Fulbright Scholar in Residence grant, Australia India Council fellowship, Gender Studies fellowship grant, University of British Columbia, among others. In 2018, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi nominated her as the Convenor of the English Language Board and member of the General Council.
She received the IWSFF Women Achievers Award, Kolkata in 2019 and the WEI Kamala Das Poetry Award in 2020.
Dasgupta is a poet, short story writer, critic and translator. She has published 21 critical and creative books including Abuse and Other Short Stories published in 2013.
Sushma Tripathi
Editor, Hindi
Sushma Tripathi
Editor, Hindi
Sushma Tripathi (M.A., B.Ed.) is a former Hindi educator who taught at Army Public School, Assembly of Angels, and Kendriya Vidyalaya (Army), Barrackpore, West Bengal. Widely admired for her engaging teaching style, she has been especially popular among students.
She is a published poet, short story writer, and translator. Her poems have appeared in notable anthologies such as Shabdon Ki Siharan and Sky Is the Limit, as well as in respected Hindi publications including Milap and Sahityanama. Her short stories and creative writings have been featured in leading Hindi monthly magazines and Kolkata-based Hindi newspapers.
An accomplished translator, she translated Kaberi Chattopadhyay’s Peeping Through My Window into Hindi as Jagti Smritiyan. Her Hindi translation of Binayak Bandopadhyay’s novel Gas Chamber is currently in press. She has received several honors for her contributions to literature and education.
Beyond writing, she has a keen interest in painting, Lippan art, and dance, and regularly participates in cultural programs. She currently resides in Hitech City, Hyderabad, Telangana.
Sarat Roy
Cluster Head – Plant Operations
Sarat Roy
Cluster Head – Plant Operations
Sarat Roy is the Cluster Head – Plant Operations at Annapurna Group, with 30 years of leadership experience in the FMCG industry across food & beverages, personal care, health care, cosmetics, and ayurvedic products. A science graduate from Calcutta University, he holds professional qualifications in Operational Research, Packaging Technology, and Statistical Quality Control, and is certified by IIM Ahmedabad in Advanced Quality Management. Recognised by QCFI, CII, and NITIE, Sarat is passionate about work-value creation, mentoring young professionals, and skill development. He is also the author of Average to Complete Identity. It is a transformative memoir–cum–self-help guide that blends professional reinvention with real-world experiments, experiences, and problem-solving methods.