Bhattacharya, Tamojit

Ballari Sen (Ph. D.) is the Assistant Professor, Department of Bengali, Gokhale Memorial Girls' College, Calcutta. She is an award winning poet (she received the much coveted Krittibas Puraskar) for her Bengali poetry book, Bihaan Raater Bandish. The Window Seller is her maiden venture in English-language poetry. She is now doing her post-doctoral research work with Prof. Aditi Lahiri, and Dr. Stephen Parkinson on the interface of Portuguese and Bengali in middle Bengali texts at the University of Oxford.