Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha

Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha, recipient of 2021 Charles Wallace India Trust Translation Fellowship sponsored by the British Centre for Translation Studies, University of East Anglia, is Professor of English and Coordinator, Center for Critical Social Inquiry, Kazi Nazrul University, India. He was Fulbright Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellow 2018-19 at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Among his recent books are Literature, Cultural Politics and Counter-readings: Hamlet as the Prince of Deconstruction (Routledge and Aakar Books, 2021), Violence in South Asia: Contemporary Perspectives (Routledge, 2019). He co-edits Kairos, A Journal of Critical Symposium and is one of the founding members of the Postcolonial Studies Association of the Global South (PSAGS).