Born in Calcutta and educated in India and the UK, Krishna Dutta has been living in London since the late 1960s. She specializes in the history and culture of Bengal and has co-authored a biography of Rabindranath Tagore, the myriad-minded man, co-edited Tagore's selected letters, and translated Bengali short stories and poems. Her book Calcutta: a cultural and literary history, published in 2003, was critically acclaimed by many and now has a recently updated Indian edition. In 2013, she published a popular culinary cultural book on Indian dal recipes, titled "The Dal Cookbook," in London, which has already gone through several editions.
