Chitralekha Basu is an editor, creative writer, literary and film critic who contributes to The Independent and Times Literary Supplement in the UK. Her short fiction and extracts from her translations of Hootum Pyanchar Noksha are featured in the Penguin anthology of Writings on Calcutta, Amit Chaudhuri, ed; she has translated and introduced Urban Tales: A Satirist’s View of Colonial Calcutta, the whole of Hootum Pyanchar Noksha by Kali Prasanna Sinha (Samya: forthcoming 2011) Amit Chaudhuri is an internationally acclaimed novelist and literary critic. His first book, A Strange and Sublime Address (1991), won the Betty Trask Prize, the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize (Eurasia Region, Best First Book) and was short listed for the Guardian Fiction Prize. His new collection of essays, Clearing a Space: Reflection on India, Literature, Culture (Peter Lang/Permanent Black), is about to be published, May 2009. He is currently teaching Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.