Pallab Sengupta

Pallab Sengupta is a well-known essayist, translator and literary critic, both in Bengali and English. A recognised expert in the Science of Folklore, he is also known to the academic and literary circles in the country as an authority in Comparative Modern Indian Literature, Literature of Bangladesh, American and European Literatures, as well as socio-cultural history and classical texts of India. He was the president of the Asiatic Society, Kolkata. He was awarded the prestigious Dinesh Chandra Sen Memorial Prize for his lifetime achievement in Folklore studies by Rabin-Bharati University in 2009. His recent publications include: Grass-roots Democracy in India and China and Ideology Matters: China from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping.