Navjot Khosla is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Punjabi University, Patiala. She has been fortunate enough to have had the best of both worlds – education in India as well as the United States. Navjot has authored a book, A Song of Freedom: Journeying from Slavery to Love in Maya Angelou’s Poetry (2015), paying homage to one of her favourite poets. Her areas of interest include children’s literature, American literature, African American literature, Shakespeare Studies and Indian classical literature. You can find her on Instagram: @1412n_k.
The picture book Roop and the River Crossing (2025)—written by Samina Mishra and illustrated by Shivam Choudhary—gently nudges its readers to reflect upon the ideas of home, belongingness, displacement, and what it means to be uprooted as one steps into the unknown. By Navtoj Khosla