R Sreejith Varma Editor & Author

R. Sreejith Varma is an assistant professor at the Department of English, School of Social Sciences and Languages at Vellore Institute of Technology, India. He earned his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2018. Along with Swarnalatha Rangarajan, he is the translator of Mayilamma: The Life of a Tribal Eco-Warrior (2018) that chronicles the life of Mayilamma, the tribal leader of the anti-Coca-Cola campaign in Plachimada, Kerala. This translation project was the winner of the 2015 ASLE-USA Translation Grant. He is also a bilingual poet who writes in English and Malayalam, his first language.

Ajanta Sircar is a professor in the Department of English, School of Social Sciences and Languages, Vellore Institute of Technology, India. She completed her PhD from the University of East Anglia, Norwich (1993–1997). She has won numerous national and international awards such as the Commonwealth Fellowship, 1993, to most recently being nominated as Visiting Chair, India Studies, Georgetown University, Washington DC (2014–2015), by the Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India. She is the author of two books: Framing the Nation: Languages of ‘Modernity' in India (2011) and The Category of Children’s Cinema in India(2016).