Dr Payel Dutta Chowdhury is Professor and Director, School of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences at REVA University, Bangalore, India. She specializes in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cultural Studies, Memory & Trauma Studies, and Crime Narratives. She takes active interest in the study of folk culture and literature from India’s northeast region. Her published works include Lockdown Diaries: Stories of Unusual Times (2020); Folktales from India’s Northeast (2020); The Nagas: Social and Cultural Identity – Texts and Contexts (2019); The Women of Phoolbari and Other Stories (2019); and Dynamics of Self, Family and Community (2017).