Sujit Mukherjee began his career as a teacher of English Literature but as a critic he invariably focussed on issues and texts relating to India. His books include A Passage to America (1064), Towards A Literary History of India (1975), Translation as Descovery (1981) and Forster and Further (1983). Even after he left the university to join publishing, hecontinued to pursue his scholarly interest in literary history and translation studies. He was a stylishwriter, noted for his originality, independence of judgment and a sense of humour. He has a cult following among his reader. He is also well-known for his translations from Bangla into English, specially Tagore's Gora and Buddhadev Bose's The Book of Yudhistir. Sujit Mukherjee passes away in 2003.

Meenakshi Mukherjee is the author of a Realism and Reality : Novel and Society in India (1995), Re-reading Jane Austen (1991) and The Perishabel Emprie (2000). Among volumes edited by her are considerations : Twelve Studies of Indian Writing in English (1977), Rajmohan's Wife (1994) and Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children' : A Book of Readings. She has co-edited Narrative : Forms and Transformations (1986), Another India (1990) and Interrogating Postcolonialism (1996). Her latest project, a study of history and fiction will be her first book written in Bangla and is due to appear later this year. Mukherjee has taught in several universities in India and abroad, the largest spell being at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi as Professor of English. At present she is an Honorary Professor, University of Hyderabad.

GJV Prasad is a poet, novelist, and critic. He teacher English Literature at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has published widely on Indian English Literature and on contemporary world theatre. His research interests also include Translation Studies, Indian Literatures, and Australian Literature. His academic publications include Continuities in Indian English Poetry : nation language form, and an edited volume : The Lost Temper : Essays on John Osborne's Look Back in Anger (forthcoming). His creative writing include A Clean Breast (1993) and In Delhi without a Visa (1996). He has also co-edited a collection of short stories from Indian languages, Imaging the other.

Meenakshi Bharat is Reader in English at Sri Venkateswara College, University of, Delhi. She is a translator, Reviewer and critic. Her other critical interests include Children's Literature, Women's fiction and English studies, areas in which she has done extensive research. Her book the Ultimate Colony: The Child in Postcolonical Fiction has just been released. She is currently engaged in the translation of a volume of Hindi short stories.

Kailash C. Baral is professor of English and Director of the Northeast Campus of the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages (CIEFL) at Shillong. He has authored Sigmund Freud: A Study of His Theory of Art and Literature (1994) and edited two books Humanities and Pedagogy: Teaching of Humanities Today (2002) and Interpretation of Texts: text meaning and interpretation (2002). He has also co-edited theory and Praxis: Curriculum, Culture and English Studies (2003, with Kar and Rath) and Reflections on Literature, Criticism and Theory (2004, with Rath and Rao).

Harish Trivedi, Professor of English at the University of Delhi, has earlier taught at the University of Allahabad and at St Stephen's College, Delhi. He was a Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Wales (where he wrote his Ph. D. thesis on Virginia Woolf), and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Colonial Transactions: English Literature and India (Calcutta 1993; Manchester and New York, 1995). He has edited Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles (OUP, 1988), and co-edited Interrogating Post-colonialism: Theory, Text and Context (Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 1995).

E. Nageswara Rao studied in twin disciplines of English literature and linguistics in India, the U.S.A., and Canada. He taught British, American, Indian and Comparative Literatures, and Methodology of English Language Teaching at a dozen Indian and overseas universities for over four decades. He retired as Professor at Osmania University, Hyderabad, and subswuently served as Visiting Professor at several universities including the University of Hyderabad. He was Senior Academic Fellow (Humanities) at the American Studies Research Centre (now IACIS), Hyderabad, and has been associated with the Centre in various other capacities for nearly three decades.
Professor Rao's doctoral works was onthe rhetoric of ernest Hemingway. He has authored books on Bernard Shaw, Earnest Hemingway, ELT, and Criticism, as also numerous research papers.