Author Description

Half a Life Painted blue tears draining from the eyes, and behind those closed eyes I found stories. Eyes dripping kohl were my crayon doodles my hair smelt of sea spray, and faraway rains. While I played with half hearted sorrows, my dreams got painted blue, dark midnight blue, and I lived by halves. About the Author Dr. Bina Biswas is a Professor of English Communications and Language in an Engineering College under JNTU, Hyderabad. She is a translator, critic, poet, fiction writer, editor and multilinguist par excellence, besides being a Tagore expert. She is an alumnus of Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi and has done Ph.D. from Andhra University. She has authored 7 books and 4 major translations. The details are as follows: Tale of Missing Shoe and Other Stories Breeze in the Old Building and Other Stories Tagore's Heroines: Assessing the Portraits of Gender Orientation Forest Flowers: A Collection of Poems Co-authored Bombcase Baxi and Cleo, Detectives Extraordinaire A Man Outside History, translations of Pakistani Poet Naseer Ahmad Nasir's Urdu Poems into English Wake Up, India, Essays From Our Times, co-authored with Dr Ampat Koshy Co-translation of Meghnaadbadh Kavya from Bengali into English being published by LiFi Publications Translation of Sahitya Akademi Award Winner Mahesh Dattani's play Final Solutions from English to Bengali, being published by Sahitya Akademi, Kolkata Co-translation of Bangladeshi playwright Masum Reza's Araz Charitramala into English from Bengali, being published by Oberon Books, UK. Edited and compiled an anthology entitled Staging the Invisible in the Plays of Mahesh Dattani, being published.