Nabaneeta Dev Sen has more than seventy publications to her credit and has been awarded the Sahitya Akademi, Bangla Akademy, and Bangiya Sahitya Parishad literary prizes, as well as the Padmashri by the President of India. Tutun Mukherjee is Professor and Head, Centre for ComparativeLiterature, University of Hyderabad. Mrinal Pande has taught at the universities of Allahabad, Delhi, and Bhopal, and is the chief editor of Hindustan, a Hindi periodical. Vaidehi is the pen name of Janaki, who is one of the most successful Kannada women writers. She is the recipient of severalState Sahitya Akademi awards, as well as the prestigious Daana Chintamani Attimabbe State Award, the Katha Prize, the… Anupama award, and the M.K. Indira award. Nayana Kashyap teaches English and has also translated Neruda's Memoirs. B.M. Zuhara writes fiction in Malayalam and has severalpublications to her credit. She has won the Lalithambika Memorial Special Award (1992), the K. Balakrishnan Memorial Award (2004), and the Unnimoyi Memorial Award (2006). Dr Vanajam Ravindran retired from the Department of English, Lady Shriram College, New Delhi.Saniya has ten volumes of short stories and three novels to her credit. She has won many literary awards, including two state-level prizes. Maya Pandit is Professor at the Central Institute of Foreign Languages, University of Hyderabad.