Author: Anway Mukhopadhyay
Pages: 76
Year of Publication: 2017
Price: Rs 250
ISBN: 978-93-5045-169-4 (9789350451694)
About the Author
Anway Mukhopadhyay is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Culture Studies, the University of Burdwan. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Banaras Hindu University (BHU). Educated at Jadavpur University and BHU, Mukhopadhyay has authored four academic books, three published in Germany and one in the UK. He has also co-edited a book on fiction studies, published in New Delhi. His critical and creative writings have appeared in noted journals in India, Australia and the USA. He has presented papers at various conferences in India and abroad, and has contributed chapters to several edited volumes. He has authored a “lyrical epic”, Indrana: The Daughter of Zeus. Winner of institutional and state-level awards for his academic and other achievements, Mukhopadhyay has also received the Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award, conferred by the International Business Council in 2016. His documentary film Saarasvati: The Daughters of Sarasvati, on women’s Sanskritic education in an institution in Varanasi, made with the Start-up Grant awarded by BHU to him, was screened at BHU and is available on YouTube.
Contents
Preface / 9
Vision of a Tongue / 11
The City of the Goddess / 33
Mother Water / 55
Epilogue: The Crescent Moon of Kali / 71
Glossary / 75