Kala Pani Crossings

Ashutosh Bhardwaj is an independent writer, journalist, and literary critic. He has worked with the leading daily The Indian Express and has been a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (2017-2019). Besides, he has received several awards and fellowships for his work as a journalist and critic. He has three books to his credit: a short story collection (Jo Frame Men Na The, 2010), a book of essays on literature (Pitra-Vadh, 2019), and a novelistic account of the Maoist insurgency in Bastar (The Death Script, 2020), which was shortlisted for Tata Lit Fest and awarded the Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2020 at Bangalore Lit Fest. He has also published numerous articles and reviews and has presented academic papers in several national and international seminars. Judith Misrahi-Barak is Associate Professor at University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, France, where she teaches English and Postcolonial literatures. A member of EMMA, she has published numerous articles and book chapters. Her areas of specialisation are Anglophone Caribbean, Indo- and Sino-Caribbean literatures, diaspora, and migrant writing.She is General editor of the series PoCoPages (Collection 'Horizons anglophones', University Press of the Mediterranean, Montpellier). Borders and Ecotones in the Indian Ocean is the most recent volume (2020), http://www.pulm.fr/index.php/collections/horizons-anglophones/pocopages.html.She was Co-Investigator on the AHRC Research Network series on 'Writing, Analysing, Translating Dalit Literature' (2014-2016). She is also Co-Investigator on the AHRC Follow-on Funding for Impact and Engagement on 'On Stage and on Page: Celebrating Dalit and Adivasi Literatures and Performing Arts' (2020-21) https://dalitliterature.wordpress.com.She has co-edited Dalit Literatures in India, with Joshil K. Abraham (Routledge 2016; 2nd edition 2018), and Dalit Text: Aesthetics and Politics Reimagined, with K. Satyanarayana and Nicole Thiara (Routledge 2019). Her monograph Entre Atlantique et océan indien - les voix de la Caraïbe anglophone is forthcoming with Classiques Garnier (Paris, 2021).