Borders and Border Crossings: Reading Partition, Reading Diaspora

Himadri Lahiri teaches at the Department of English, University of Burdwan, West Bengal. He worked on asian American women writers for his doctoral dissertation and has publsihed articles on Indian Writing in English, postcolonial and ethnic American literatures.

Dr. Nandini Bhattacharya (Reader, West Bengal Education Service) is at present affiliated to Hooghly Mohosin College, and a Guest Lecturer in the Calcutta University. Her area of interest is post-colonial theory and fiction. Her last published book was R.K. Narayan’s The Guide: New Critical Perspectives. She is at present researching issues of colonial encounter in late nineteenth-early twentieth century Bengal with special reference to the Bengali novelist Saratchandra Chattopadhyay.