Aruna Chakravarti is a writer, academic and translator. Her first novel, The Inheritors, was short-listed for the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 2004. She has translated widely from Bengali, including Saratchandra Chattopadhyay's Srikanta and Sunil Gangopadhyay's Those Days. She has also co-authored On the Wings of Music with composer Shantanu Moitra.
