Radha Chakravarty teaches literature at Gargi College, University of Delhi. She is the author of Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers: Rethinking Subjectivity. Her books in translation include Bankimchandra's Kapalkundala; Tagore's Chokher Bali; Farewell Song: Shesher Kabita; Gora; Boyhood Days and The Land of Cards: Stories, Poems & Plays for Children; Mahasweta Devi's In the Name of the Mother: Four Stories, and the anthology Crossings: Stories from Bangladesh and India. She has edited Bodymaps: Stories by South Asian Women, and is currently co-editing The Essential Tagore for Visva Bharati and Harvard.
