Himansu S. Mohapatra is a former Professor of English, Utkal University, Odisha. He has edited with Paul St-Pierre – a book of Odia short stories entitled ‘The Other Side of Reason’ (2008) and also produced, with Paul St-Pierre, four translations: Basanti: Writing the New Woman (OUP, 2019), Letters to Jorina (Authors Press, 2021), Battles of Our Own (Penguin, 2022), and Following My Heart (Dhauli Books, 2023). His translation of The Life and Times of Banka Harichandan by Dipti Ranjan Pattanaik has just been published under the joint imprint of Yoda Press and Simon & Schuster India.