Debotri Dhar

Dr. Debotri Dhar is an award-winning author-educator, editor, columnist, and consultant. Her books include Education and Gender (Bloomsbury Academic: New York, London, New Delhi; edited with introduction, 2015), the essay collection Love is Not a Word: The Culture and Politics of Desire (New Delhi: Speaking Tiger, 2020), edited with introduction; her single-authored Postcards from Oxford: Stories of Women and Travel (London, Kolkata); The Best Asian Short Stories (Singapore, Kitaab, 2018; judged and edited); The Courtesans of Karim Street (New Delhi: Niyogi) and others. Her stories such as “A Flute Called Radha” (Penguin Random House), “Meeting Sabita” (Every Day Fiction), “Snakes” (Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train) and others have been published in magazines and anthologies worldwide. Debotri is the founder of the Hummingbird Global Writers’ Circle, a transnational literary traveling initiative to foster a love of books and ideas, cultural exchange, and global understanding; and the Hummingbird Global Leaders Forum, which draws upon her decade-plus experience in interdisciplinary teaching and global policy engagements to generate policy dialogues in 4 areas and to promote leadership across sectors. Dr. Dhar earned a Bachelors degree in Economics (Honors) from Delhi University, Masters in Women’s Studies, with distinction, from Oxford University, PhD in Women’s and Gender Studies from Rutgers University, was a visiting scholar at Boston University, and has lectured or presented at universities such as Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Boston, U-Penn, Michigan, Delhi, and Oxford as well as non-university settings accessible to a wider audience. For more, please visit www.debotridhar.com.