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Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay is the author of Panty, Abandon and The Yogini. She has written nine novels and over fifty short stories since her controversial debut Shankini was first published in Bengali in 2006. Also a newspaper columnist and film critic, Sangeeta is based in Kolkata. Arunava Sinha is the translator of Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay's Panty, Abandon and The Yogini. He has translated over thirty books from Bengali. Winner of the Crossword translation award, for both Sankar's Chowringhee and Anita Agnihotri's Seventeen, and of the Muse India translation award for Buddhadeva Bose's When The Time Is Right, his translation of Chowringhee was also shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
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