Adrita Mukherjee has been a Lecturer of English at Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, Lady Brabourne College, and Rabindra Bharati University since 1996. She graduated from Presidency College, Calcutta and completed her Masters in English from Calcutta University (through Presidency College) with a First Class. Adrita bagged the prestigious P.C Ghosh Memorial Book Prize from Presidency for topping her college in MA. She has contributed articles for The Telegraph and Hindustan Times. At the moment, Adrita is trying her hand at translation and rendering an English version to a Bengali novel for Stree Publishers (Sabitri Roy's Paka Dhaner Gaan). Her hobby is “Reading, reading, and more reading!” Adrita’s love for books led her to start Blithe Spirits, a PG Wodehouse society about four years ago with three other friends. The society has a Mumbai chapter, a website, a magazine and also conducts a yearly humour quiz. In her leisure, Adrita sings Rabindra Sangeet and Semi-Classical music and also takes interest in plays. Adrita has recently shifted base to New Zealand and is residing in Wellington with her husband and son.

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Sanjay Vasant Ranade is a freelance journalist and writer. A Commerce graduate from Mumbai University, Sanjay also has a diploma in Mass Comm. Journalism up his sleeve. He triggered off his career in 1989 as a trainee reporter with The Indian Post after which he joined the Times of India. He covered crime extensively and was deeply moved by the Mumbai riots (1992-93) and the serial blasts in March 1993. Later, he moved on to TV journalism with Business India Television and IN Mumbai. In 1996, he set up India Money to take charge of India operations of Emerging Markets Data Plc, a Dublin based online news agency. But unfortunately, financial losses forced this service to shut down abruptly in January 1997. For almost a year after that Sanjay sold flowers at Dadar! He reminisces, “It was a most unique experience to see the world, naked, varied, dynamic and full of conflict and the strangest confluence”. He was appointed Press Adviser to Mr Suresh Prabhu, MP and Union Power Minister in 2001. Sanjay’s radio play Archimedes won the first prize in the All India Playwright's competition of AIR (‘99-‘00).

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