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Pradip Bhattacharya is the author of 14 published books covering English literature, rural development, homoeopathy, children's stories, ancient Indian History, the Mahabharata. he has also translated Rabindranath Tagore's Shantiniketan and Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's Krishnacharita into English for the first time. He is the only Indian to be awarded the International Human Resource Development Fellowship (1989) by Manchester University and the Institute of Training and Development, U.K. He is a member of the Indian 'Administrative Service and a Secretary to the Government of West Bengal.

Subodh Ghosh was born in Hazaribagh, Bihar on 14^th September, 1909.  After completing his education from St. Columbus College in the same town, he dabbled in a variety of professions.  He worked as a Municipal Vaccinator, a bus conductor, a circus staff, a crew member on a ship, before settling down as a proof-reader, and subsequently as an editor, for Ananda Publishers.  Many of his novels and short stories have been made into hugely popular films in Hindi and Bangla.  Winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award, Subodh Ghosh also won the Filmfare award as the best story writer twice: in 1959 for Sujata, and posthumously for Izazat (based on “Jatugriha”) in 1990.