Namita Sethi Author & Editor

Brij Krishna Chandiwala was an Indian freedom fighter from Delhi and a political associate of Mahatma Gandhi, who was awarded the Padma Shri in 1963 for his contributions to the field of social work.

Jitender Gill is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Janki Devi Memorial College, India. She was awarded a doctoral degree in English literature by the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She is a recipient of Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Lecture fellowship in 2010-11. Her primary areas of research are nineteenth century British literature and culture. She has written articles on the nineteenth century British literature as well as popular culture. She has also edited The City in Times of Covid (2021) and has co-edited Re-Discovering Delhi (2020). As the Director of JDMC Research Centre, she has conceptualized and mentored a series of projects about Delhi, in which a large number of students and faculty of the college are also involved.

Namita Sethi are Associate Professors in the Department of English, Janki Devi Memorial College, India. She has received her Ph D and MPhil degrees from University of Delhi. She has been an Associate at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, and the recipient of the UGC International travel grant, Charles Wallace, and British Council Grants for presenting papers in the UK. She has taught, researched, and published in the areas of the British Long Eighteenth Century, Detective Fiction, Adivasi Literatures, Women’s Studies and Classical literatures, and has co-edited Re-Discovering Delhi (2020). Her article on Santhal literature has been published as a chapter in the book Representing the Exotic and the Familiar: Politics and Perception inLiterature. Some of her poems and translations in English and Hindi have been published as well. She is a member of the British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies and its Indian branch IISECS.