C. Christine Fair, a professor in Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program within the School of Foreign Service, translates Rajinder Singh Bedi's timeless short story, Quarantine.

Armaan Singh translates, from Bangla, an essay by poet Prabal Kumar Basu.

Monibhushan Bhattacharya was a major poet who transformed the language of Bengali poetry in the late 1960s and early 1970s. His poems were published in famous literary journals including the Buddhadeb Basu edited Kabita, Porichoy, Chaturanga and Purbasha.

Kālidāsa was a Classical Sanskrit author who is often considered ancient India's greatest poet and playwright. His plays and poetry are primarily based on the Vedas, the Rāmāyaṇa, the Mahābhārata and the Purāṇas. His surviving works consist of three plays, two epic poems and two shorter poems.