Sharmistha Mohanty is the author of three works of fiction, Book One, New Life and Five Movements in Praise, from which the excerpt published in the Ancient Asia Issue of Cha is taken. She has also translated a selection of Rabindranath Tagore’s fiction, Broken Nest and Other Stories. Mohanty is the founder editor of the online journal Almost Island and the initiator of the Almost Island Dialogues series, an annual international writers meet held in New Delhi. Almost Island has also begun a publishing imprint for both prose and poetry and has three books till date. She is currently on the International Faculty for the Creative Writing MFA at the City University of Hong Kong. Mohanty has received a fellowship from the Ministry of Culture in India, as well as from the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany. [Fiction]