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{{Infobox Author<br />
| image = Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey - Kolkata 2015-10-10 5626.JPG<br />
| image_size = 159x200px<br />
| birth_date = 1972<br />
| birth_place = [[Kolkata]], India<br />
| death_date = 30 December 2021<br />
| death_place = [[Jaisalmer]], India<br />
| occupation = Journalist, writer, and translator<br />
| language = [[Bengali language|Bengali]], [[English language|English]]<br />
| nationality = Indian<br />
| citizenship = Indian<br />
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'''Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey''' (1972–2021) was an Indian journalist, translator, and writer. She worked as a journalist and editor with ''[[The Times of India]]'' for 24 years, and authored eight books in the [[Bengali language]].{{Citation needed|date=April 2023}} In addition, she published several translations, including Bengali editions of two books by politician and writer [[Shashi Tharoor]], as well as books by [[Sunil Gangopadhyay|Sunil Gangopadhay]] and Amar Mitra. She died in 2021, following a car accident.<br />
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== Life ==<br />
Pandey was born, and lived in [[Kolkata]], in [[West Bengal]], India.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Senior journalist and author Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey dies in a road accident - Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/books/features/senior-journalist-and-author-jhimli-mukherjee-pandey-dies-in-a-road-accident/articleshow/88582084.cms |access-date=2022-10-31 |website=The Times of India |language=en}}</ref> She married Ramesh Pandey, and they had a son, Vaibhav.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey : জয়সলমীরে পথ দুর্ঘটনায় মৃত্যু সাংবাদিক ঝিমলি মুখোপাধ্যায় পাণ্ডের |url=https://bangla.aajtak.in/kolkata/story/jhimli-mukherjee-pandey-senior-kolkata-journalist-writer-died-road-accident-near-jaisalmer-abk-328076-2021-12-30 |access-date=2022-10-31 |website=Aaj Tak বাংলা |language=bn}}</ref><br />
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== Career ==<br />
Pandey began her career working with ''[[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]],'' an English-language newspaper, and later worked with ''[[The Times of India]]'', a leading English-language daily newspaper from India, for 24 years, reporting on communities, heritage, and education, as well as being a senior assistant editor.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Jhimli-Mukherjee-Pandey: Read Latest News from Jhimli-Mukherjee-Pandey - Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Jhimli-Mukherjee-Pandey-4216.cms |access-date=2022-10-31 |website=timesofindia.indiatimes.com}}</ref> She also was a key organiser for the Times Literary Festival, an arts festival organised in Kolkata annually by ''The Times of India''.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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As an author, Jhimli wrote in the Bengali language and English. She wrote eight novels in Bengali, 25 short stories for children, and a novel in English.<ref name=":0" /> Pandey also co-wrote ''A Gift of Goddess Lakshmi'' (Penguin 2017), the autobiography of [[Manabi Bandyopadhyay|Manobi Bandopadhyay]], a woman who overcame significant social challenges to become the first transgender college principal in India, along with Bandopadhyay herself.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Majumdar |first=Saikat |title=Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey: A writer who brought vernacular Bengal into throbbing life in English |url=https://scroll.in/article/1013980/jhimli-mukherjee-pandey-a-writer-who-brought-vernacular-bengal-into-throbbing-life-in-english |access-date=2022-10-31 |website=Scroll.in |language=en-US}}</ref> The book received reviews in the ''Hindustan Times'' and ''The Hindu<sup>.</sup>''<ref>{{Cite news |last=Anantharaman |first=Latha |date=2017-03-18 |title=Latha Anantharaman reviews A Gift of Goddess Lakshmi: A Candid Biography of India’s First Transgender Principal by Manobi Bandyopadhyay and Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey |language=en-IN |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/story-of-a-transition/article17527961.ece |access-date=2022-10-31 |issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-04-28 |title=Making Her-story: Review of A Gift of Goddess Lakshmi, Manobi Bandyopadhyay’s memoir |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/making-her-story-review-of-a-gift-of-goddess-lakshmi-manobi-bandyopadhyay-s-memoir/story-VHBJ054h4IcFtYbdmdDC7M.html |access-date=2022-10-31 |website=Hindustan Times |language=en}}</ref> Her English-language novel, ''Not Just Another Story'' (Aleph Book Company 2019), was based on her research on [[Sonagachi]], Kolkata's red-light district, and described the lives of three sex workers.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-09-23 |title=Not Just Another Story: A Novel {{!}} Aleph Book Company |url=http://www.alephbookcompany.com/book/not-just-another-story-a-novel/ |access-date=2022-10-31 |website=Aleph Book Company {{!}} |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1" /><br />
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As a translator, Pandey translated several works from English to Bengali, including two books by writer and politician [[Shashi Tharoor]]: his novel, ''[[The Great Indian Novel]]'', and a non-fiction book, [[Inglorious Empire|''Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India''.]]<ref name=":0" /> She also translated a Bengali book by Amar Mitra to English, which was published posthumously, in 2022, as well as [[Sunil Gangopadhyay]]'s novel, ''Interrogation'' .<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dhanapatir Char |url=https://penguin.co.in/book/dhanapatir-char/ |access-date=2022-10-31 |website=Penguin Random House India |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Unudurti |first=Jaideep |date=2022-09-09 |title=Review of Amar Mitra’s Bengali novel Dhanapatir Char, translated by Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey |language=en-IN |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/bengali-novel-review-of-amar-mitras-dhanapatir-char-translated-by-jhimli-mukherjee-pandey/article65852763.ece |access-date=2022-10-31 |issn=0971-751X}}</ref><br />
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== Death ==<br />
Pandey died in a car accident on 30 December 2021, while on vacation in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, at the age of 49.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-12-30 |title=Journalist Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey Dies In Road Accident, Mamata Banerjee, Press Club Condole Scribe’s Death |url=https://mobilenews24x7.com/2021/states/journalist-jhimli-mukherjee-pandey-dies-in-road-accident-mamata-banerjee-press-club-condole-scribes-death/ |access-date=2022-10-31 |website=Mobile News 24x7 English |language=en-US}}</ref> Following her death, the Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Pandey, described her death as "creating a void in the world of journalism," and Shashi Tharoor, whose works she had translated, also released a statement in her memory.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=31 December 2021 |title=Cm Condoles Death Of Toi Journalist |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/cm-condoles-death-of-toi-journalist/articleshow/88602064.cms |access-date=2022-10-31 |website=The Times of India |language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Bibliography ==<br />
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* [[Manabi Bandyopadhyay|Manobi Bandyopadhyay]], Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey, ''A Gift of Goddess Lakshmi'' (Penguin, 2017) {{ISBN|9780143425946}}<br />
* Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey, ''Not Just Another Story'' (Aleph Book Company 2019) {{ISBN|9789388292955}}<br />
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* [[Sunil Gangopadhyay|Sunil Gangopadhay]], ''Interrogation'' (Bee Books, 2012) (translated from Bengali to English by Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey) {{ISBN|9789380925110}}<br />
* [[Ranjana Bandhopadhyay]], ''Kadambari Devi's suicide-note'' (Bee Books, 2015) (translated from Bengali to English by Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey) {{ISBN|9789380925172}}<br />
* Amar Mitra, ''Dhanapatir Char : whatever happened to Pedru's island?'' (Ebury Press 2022) {{ISBN|9780670095223}} <br />
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[[Category:1972 births]]<br />
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[[Category:Writers from Kolkata]]<br />
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[[Category:21st-century Indian women writers]]<br />
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