Dr. Gautam Choubey

Dr. Gautam Choubey is an academic, writer and the host of Sansad TV's talk show on Indian literature—Likhawat.

Gautam has translated prose fiction of Suryakant Tripathi Nirala (A Portrait of Love, Penguin), Andre Beitelle (लोकतंत्र और उसकी संस्थाएँ, OUP) and has also co–translated Hindi bestseller Twelfth Fail (Harper Collins). His critically acclaimed translation of Pandey Kapil's historical romance Phoolsunghi (Penguin) is the first ever translation of a Bhojpuri novel into English.

He is a bilingual columnist with bylines in TOI, Deccan Herald, Pioneer and Rashtriya Sahara, among others.

His Hindi debut Chakka Jaam, set against the JP Movement and the 1974 Railways Strike, moves from Rangoon to Bihar via Bengal, testing the tenacity of Devanand, whose worldview is framed by Bombay cinema, pulp fiction, and family history.