Udayon Misra is an academic, translator, and Former Professor and Head of the Department of English, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh, Assam. He was Former National Fellow at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, and at the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi. His recent books, Burden of History: Assam and the Partition-Unresolved Issues (2017) and India’s North-East: Identity Movements, State, and Civil Society (2014) was published by OUP. Udayon Misra writes for several leading newspapers and contributes regularly to Economic and Political Weekly and The Book Review. In 2020, he translated the novel Ka Meikhar Ghar by Tilottoma Misra from Assamese to English as High Wind, published by Zubaan.