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Jayita Sengupta teaches English Literature in South Calcutta Girls College under Calcutta University. She completed her Master of Arts from Calcutta University and M.Phil. and Ph.d from J.M.I., New Delhi. She was the recipient of the Charles Wallace Grant in 2000, which enabled her to do research in U.K. and was a British Council Fellow at the Oxford Conference in the same year. Her publications include research articles on post-colonial literatures, critical theory and feminist literatures in journals of repute. Her translations from Bangla to English include, Relationships, short stories by Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay (Kolkata: Writers Workshop, 2003) and In The Other Bengal, a creative travelogue by Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay (New Delhi: Foundation for SAARC Writers and Literature, 2005). She has edited a collection of stories from various Indian languages in English translation, The Muffled Heart: Stories of the Disempowered Male (New Delhi: Rupa, 2005) and translated Bani Basu's Novel, Gandharbi, forthcoming from Katha.