Tista Das teaches history at Bankura University, India. She obtained her PhD from the University of Calcutta, Kolkata. She was a junior research fellow at the Peace Studies Group, Department of History, University of Calcutta. Her research focuses on the afterlife of the Partition in India and narratives of life in refugee camps and colonies in post-partition Bengal. She has focused on the experiences of women in this narrative. She has worked on ways and means of reading violence and those of reliving the experiences of the Partition in South Asia through remembrance and forgetting.