Vermillion Clouds: A Century of Womens Stories from Bengal

RADHA CHAKRAVARTY is a Reader in English at Gargi College (University of Delhi). Her doctoral thesis is a cross-cultural study of contemporary women writers. Her books, Crossings: Stories from Bangladesh and India, Chokher Bali and In the Name of the Mother, are English translations of major Bengali writers, including Tagore, Mahasweta Devi, Sunila Hossain and Shamsul Haq.