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Born in Calcutta in 1956 in an illustrious family of Shantiniketan, West Bengal, Sinjiota Gupta did her post-graduation in English literature. She has been an English lecturer in several schools and colleges in Vizaj, Mumbai and Delhi. Sinjita is the daughter of Late Prof. J.M. senguptas, founder statistician of Indian Statistical Institute, and niece of Late Shri Satyen Sen, freedom fighter, writer and winner of Sahitya Academy Award of Bangladesh. Her grandfather, Pandit Kshitimohan Sen, was the vice Chancellor of Viswabharati University and a close consort of Gurudeve Rabindranath Tagore. Her family background and a childhood closely associated with Tagore’s ‘Shantiniketan’ has contributed considerably to her present work. As she says, this translation is like a ‘dream come true and a rediscovery of the great master’s limitless greatness’. Sinjita has to her credit several articles and short stories in The Free Press Journal, Asian Age, Indian Express, Mumbai, and The New Natioin Magazine, Dacca, Bangladesh, besides several film reviews and critical essays. For two years she was the editor and coordinator of the Navy Wives’ Welfare Association’s newsmagazine Varuni. She has organized, and performed in, social and cultural programmes, and taken part in debates, discussions and talks in The all India Radio. She has also appeared in interviews and women’s programmes. Her first book, The Bauls of Bengal, was published by Writers’ Workshop, Kolkata. She is married to a seniopr naval officer and is currently residing in New Delhi.