Mandira Mitra Chakraborty is a writer from Kolkata who grew up in the jungles of Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand amidst Sal Mahua trees. The awareness of a bustling humming world of insects, birds, trees and animals, of rivers and hills with coal burning in their belly subsumes all her experience. Apart from being a poet and a writer, she is a professor of English Literature at Taki Government College, West Bengal. She has a Doctorate Degree in Medical Humanities and has published some scholarly work as well, apart from a debut collection of poetry called, “Six Ways of Raising Daughters” and a short story collection called "Firefly Games". You can find her on Instagram: @kissewali and Twitter: @MandiraChaktab1.
Fiction by Mandira Mitra Chakraborty: ‘I try not to behave like my mother and accept a session of pedicure without making it about civilization and its discontents. I am in no hurry to die, but I shall go quietly when He comes.’