Sarmistha Dutta Gupta; Narayani Gupta

Jasodhara Bagchi is Professor Emerita in the Department of Women s Studies, Jadavpur University. She studied in Kolkata, Oxford and Cambridge. After teaching English Literature in Jadavpur University, she was the Founder-Directorof the School of Women s Studies there. She is also a founder-member of SACHETANA, and was Chairperson, West Bengal Commission for Women. Her wide range of interests include writings by women, nineteenth-centuryliterature and intellectual history in England and Bengal, and Gender and Partition in Eastern India.Sarmistha Dutta Gupta is an independent scholar, a literary translator and an activist of the women s movement. Her publications include Identities and Histories: Women s Writing and Politics in Bengal (2010). She is the foundersecretary of a Kolkata-based voluntary organisation, Ebong Alap. Narayani Gupta is Ashoka Gupta s daughter-in-law. She retired as professor of history, and lives in Delhi.