About the TranslatorHansda Sowvendra Shekhar is a doctor by day and the author of a collection of short stories, The Adivasi Will Not Dance, which was shortlisted for The Hindu Prize; and a novel, The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey, which won the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar and was nominated for The Hindu Prize and the Crossword Book Award and the International Dublin Literary Award. His other books include My Father’s Garden and Jwala Kumar and the Gift of Adventures in Champakbagh, a novel for children. He also translates into English from Santali, Hindi and Bengali. His translations have been published in Asymptote, The Hindu Literary Review, Scroll, National Herald on Sunday, Usawa Literary Review, Indian Literature, Poetry at Sangam and The Dalhousie Review.