Paromita Sengupta (PhD, English) is an academic, author, translator, independent film-maker and life coach. She is keen to publish herself in various creative forms including the audio-visual media. Some of her documentary films are Migration and Memories (2020) and The Unknown Spring (2021). Her book publications include an edition of The Persecuted, (the first drama to be written in the English language by an Indian, Revd. K. M. Banerjea), Bimukta (published by Eka, Westland Amazon in March 2020) a Bengali translation of Volga’s Sahitya Akademi Award-winning collection of short stories The Liberation of Sita, and an English translation of Dalit writer Sharan Kumar Limbale’s Saraswati Samman- winning novel Sanatan, published by Penguin Random House in April 2024. At present, Paromita lives in Limerick, Ireland, and works as Director of Studies in Griffith Institute of Language, Griffith College Limerick.
