21st Century Perspectives on Indian Writing in English

Debasish Lahiri is an Assistant Professor in English literature at Lal Baba College of the University of Calcutta, India. He is the author of Chiaroscuro Curfew: Essays in the Lives of Art (2020), the co-editor of Literary Transactions in a Globalized Context (2010), and the co-author of Tragic Survivals: From the Hellenic to the Postmodern (2017). He is also an internationally acclaimed poet, having authored First Will & Testament (2012), No Waiting like Departure (2016), Tinder Tender: Poems of Love and Loitering (2018), Poppies in the Post and Other Poems (2020), Paysages sans Verbes (2021), and Tether that Light (2022).Pradipta Mukherjee is a film critic and Associate Professor in the Department of English of Vidyasagar College for Women of the University of Calcutta, India. Her published books include Fluid Frame in Cinema: Collected Essays; Studies in John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman; and Shakespeare on the Celluloid: Global Perspectives. She is also the co-author of Tragic Survivals: From the Hellenic to the Postmodern and the co-editor of The Diasporic Dilemma: Exile, Alienation and Belonging, Dodging Dystopia: Literary Routes, Global Circuits, and Women’s Education in India: Past Predicaments and Future Possibilities.