Swapan Chakravorty
is professor and head of the Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. His books include Society and Politics in the Plays of Thomas Middleton, Oxford 1996; and Bangalir ingreji sahityacharcha, Kolkata 2006. He has co-edited Print Areas: Book History in India, Delhi 2004 and is contributing editor to Collected Works of Thomas Middleton, Oxford (forthcoming).
Eurozine Articles
Imminent ruin and desperate remedy
Calcutta and its fragments
Calcutta's longstanding communist government is ingratiating the city to Western investors. By evicting squatters and street vendors from public spaces in the name of sanitation and Western norms, it is robbing Calcutta of its vital tradition of urban commons. [more]




