Since her exceptional debut novel, Shankini, Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay has written nine novels and over fifty short stories. With extraordinary women often leading her works, she traverses topics from gender and sexuality to religion and social commentary. Her writing is acerbic and unsettling, making her stories hard to put down or forget. Also a newspaper columnist and film critic, Bandyopadhyay lives and writes in Kolkata.