Arup K. Chatterjee is Associate Professor of English, at OP Jindal Global University, a recipient of Charles Wallace Fellowship to United Kingdom, the Founder Chief Editor of Coldnoon: International Journal of Travel Writing& Travelling Cultures, and author of, the widely reviewed and acclaimed, The Purveyors of Destiny: A Cultural Biography of the Indian Railways (Bloomsbury, 2017) and The Great Indian Railways (Bloomsbury, 2018) He is a prolific author and has contributed numerous articles on history, literature, culture and politics, to magazines such as The Hindu, Hindustan Times, The Conversation, Scroll, The Wire, DailyO, Huffington Post, and The Caravan, and has been or is about to be interviewed in All India Radio, The Missing Slate, Writers in Conversation, SBS Radio Australia, The Quint and BBC India.