Contributors

Mihaela GLIGOR Mihaela Gligor studied Philosophy at Babe -Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, where she also received her Ph.D. in Philosophy in 2006 with a thesis about Mircea Eliade and Romanian Right Extreme . In the present, she is Scientific Researcher in the field of Philosophy at The Romanian Academy, “George Bari Ńiu” History Institute, Cluj-Napoca, Department of Humanities. In 2009 she was a Fellow at Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University , , with an ICCR Postdoctoral Scholarship. She has coordinated, along with Mac Linscott Ricketts, the following volumes: Întâlniri cu/Encounters with Mircea Eliade (Cluj-Napoca, Casa C ărŃii de tiin Ńă , 2005), Întâlniri cu Mircea Eliade (Bucharest, Humanitas, 2007) and Professor Mircea Eliade: Reminiscences (Kolkata, Codex, 2008). Coordinator, along with Sherry Sabbarwal, of the volume Patterns in Philosophy and Sociology of Religions (Rawat Publications, Jaipur, India, 2011). She is Coordinator of “Indian Library” Collection at Casa C ărŃii de tiin Ńă Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, Collection in which she translated Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian (Amartya Sen, India. Scrieri despre cultura, istoria si identitatea indian ă, 2010). Author of volumes Mircea Eliade. Anii tulburi. 1932-1938 (Mircea Eliade. His political involvement. 1932-1938 ), Bucharest, EuroPress Group, 2007 (nominated for Romanian Writers Union prizes), and India. Însemn ări, eseuri, jurnal ( India. Writings, Essays, Journal ), Cluj-Napoca, Casa C ărŃii de tiin Ńă , 2009 (awarded with Sergiu Al-George Prize of RICA – Romanian Indian Cultural Association; second edition, 2010).

Kathleen M. O’CONNELL Kathleen M. O’Connell teaches courses on South Asia at New College, University of Toronto, Canada. Her research interests include , ; and Bengali cultural and literary history. Her publications include: Bravo Professor Shonku . Translation (Bengali to English) of three stories by Satyajit Ray. New Delhi, Rupa & Co., 1985; Rabindranath Tagore: The Poet as Educator. Calcutta, Visva-Bharati, 2002; Rabindranth Tagore: Claiming a Cultural Icon . Jointly edited with Joseph T. O’Connell, Kolkata, Visva-Bharati, 2009.

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Reba SOM Dr. Reba Som was educated at Presidency College, Calcutta. She took her Ph.D from Calcutta University. She is currently Director of Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR in Kolkata. Her publications include Differences within Consensus: The Left-Right Divide in the Congress 1929-39 , Gandhi, Nehru and Bose: The Making of the Modern Indian Mind , and Rabindranath Tagore: The Singer and his Song . Reba Som is also a trained singer of Rabindrasangeet. Her compact disc, Selected Songs of Rabindranath Tagore includes her English translations of Tagore’s lyrics.

Subrata MAJUMDAR Professor Subrata Majumdar is a retired Professor of Department of Mathematics, Rajshahi University, . He holds a Ph.D in Mathematics from University of Birmingham, U.K. and is the author of many articles and studies on mathematics and on Tagore’s music which have been published in books and reputed journals. His professional career in mathematics includes his research and/or teaching at University of Birmingham, U.K., Indian Statistical Institute, India, Makerere University, Uganda, Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Italy and Pabna Science and Technology University, Bangladesh. He has served as the President of the Bangladesh Mathematical Society, and is associated with many other mathematical societies abroad. He has played a lead role in mathematics education and research in Bangladesh. Beyond his career in mathematics, he has also made presentations on Tagore songs at universities and musical conferences, and directed Tagore’s dance dramas and cultural programs since 1970. Some his translations of Tagore’s poems and songs in English can be found at: http://tagore-poems-en.blogspot.com/ and http://gitabitan- en.blogspot.com.

Imre BANGHA Dr. Imre Bangha is a lecturer in Hindi at University of Oxford, Faculty of Oriental Studies. His research interestes are the emergence of Hindi (including Khari Boli) as a literary dialect in various scripts; textual transmission and Hindi manuscript culture; Riti poetry and the continuity of classical Sanskrit aesthetics in court literature; individualism and “ritimukt” poetry in Brajbhasha; the work of individual poets: Vishnudas, Kabir, Tulsidas, Vajid, Anandghan, Thakur.

186 Among his published works: Madhya aur purv ī y ūrop m hind ī: Purv ī aur madhya y ūrop ke r īy sammelan, Sapientsiy āt) k ā dvit īy antarr ās hind ī vidv āno vi śvavidy ālay, rom āniy ā (Hindi in Central and Eastern Europe: Second International Conference of Hindi Scholars in Central and Eastern Europe, Sapientia University, Romania), Vani Prakashan, New Delhi, 2007 [Edited vol.] and Hungry Tiger: Encounter between India and Central Europe – the case of Hungarian and Bengali Literary Cultures . Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 2007.

Madhumita CHATTOPADHYAY Madhumita Chattopadhyay is Professor of Philosophy Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. In the present she is a JSPS fellow in the Department of Indian Philosophy, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan. Her numerous publications include Walking along the Paths of Buddhist Epistemology , Delhi, D.K. Printworld, 2008; Inter-personal Relationship in Academy , edited with I. Sanyal, Calcutta, Anjali Publishers, 2007; Ethics: an Anthology , edited with T. Bannerjee, Calcutta, Allied Publishers, 2002; What to do with the Liar , Calcutta, Allied Publishers, 1998.

Martin KÄMPCHEN Martin Kämpchen studied at Vienna and Paris. His subjects were German Literature, Dramatic Art, Philosophy and French. He obtained a Ph.D. in 1973 with a thesis on modern war literature. Immediately after completion of his studies Martin Kämpchen left for India in order to teach German in Calcutta, then to study Comparative Religion at Madras and Santiniketan (West-Bengal). After his second Ph.D. on a comparison of Ramakrishna and Francis of Assisi he remained in India as a writer, translator and journalist. He lives at Santiniketan, India. For more information visit his website www.martin-kaempchen.com .

Raluca BOBOC A graduate of Bucharest University, Raluca Boboc is a B.A. in English and Swedish, the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures and M.A. in Jewish Studies. She is currently completing her PhD research in the philosophy and anthropology of the body in the religious field. Along with a great deal of travelling in the Orient, as a photographer and independent researcher and writer, she has fostered a growing interest in mythology and history of religions and has published articles related to her research in the anthropology of religion, gnosis and dualism.

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SANJUKTA BHATTACHARYYA Dr. Sanjukta Bhattacharyya is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Raja Peary Mohan College, Uttarpara affiliated to the University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. She holds a PhD in Comparative Religion from the Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and a M.A Degree in Philosophy, with specialization in Psychology, from the Department of Philosophy, University of Calcutta. Her areas of interest: Myth, Religions, Mircea Eliade studies. Among her published titles we can mention “Significance of Narratives of Myth in History and Culture – An Observation”, Journal of Department of Philosophy , University of Calcutta, 2008; “Émile Durkheim’ Sociological Methodology – A Tool to Understand the Significance of Myth in Society”, Journal of The Academy of Indian Philosophy , published by The Academy of Indian Philosophy, 2008; “Eliade’s History of Religions: A reaction against historicity and historicism” in Patterns in Philosophy and Sociology of Religions , edited by Mihaela Gligor and Sherry Sabbarwal, Rawat Publications, Jaipur, 2011.

Anandamayee MAJUMDAR Dr. Anandamayee Majumdar is an Assistant Professor at Department of Mathemathics and Statistics, Arizona State University. She holds a PhD in Statistics from University of Connecticut and is the author of many articles in statistics published in volumes and reputed journals. She is a member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies (IJDATS). Beyond her career in statistics, she contributed with articles about Tagore to Parabaas (www.parabaas.com) and translated many of Rabindranath Tagore’s songs and poems into English: http://gitabitan-en.blogspot.com and http://tagore-poems-en.blogspot.com/.

Tapu BISWAS Dr. Tapu Biswas is a Lecturer in English, Department of English and Other Modern European Languages, Visva – Bharati University, Santiniketan, India. He is also Joint Secretary of Shakespeare Society of Eastern India and Secretary of Tagore Gandhi Institute for Culture Studies and Service Learning.

188 Rajasri BASU Dr. Rajasri Basu is Associate Professor within the Department of Political Science and Director, Women’s Studies Centre, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India. She did her PhD on Ethnopsychology and Political Participation: The Santals of . She has presented papers in several state-level, national, and international seminars and conferences. She has written extensively on women’s issues in several academic journals and has five books to her credit. She has organized several workshops and seminars and is also the member-secretary of the Equality Cell and the Cell for Combating Sexual Harassment in her University. She is also associated with several Non Governmental Organizations and is in the Executive Council of several Academic Bodies. She is also the editor of Rabindra Bharati Journal of Women’s Studies and is in the editorial boards of Socialist Perspective and the Journal of West Bengal Political Science Association. She, however, has a penchant for teaching from which she gets her food for thought.

Sarvani GOOPTU Dr. Sarvani Gooptu is an Associate Professor and Head of Department of History from Calcutta Girls’ College. For the past twenty years she researched on cultural history of Bengal. She obtained UGC Fellowship research on Dwijendralal Roy and Bengali nationalism and UGC sponsored research on the Public theatre of Calcutta and the Minority communities of Calcutta. Presently she is also working on IDSK project on women’s education and schooling in 20th Bengal and the Azad Hind Fauj.

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