Dr John Stevens is head of London Bangla Academy, an online school that teaches the Bengali language to students across the world. His biography of the Indian guru Keshab Chandra Sen – Keshab: Bengal’s Forgotten Prophet – was published by Hurst and Oxford University Press. He has appeared many times in Indian media, and was a guest on BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time, discussing the poet and artist Rabindranath Tagore.