Contributors ALOK BHALLA teaches English at the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad. MANABENDRA BANDYOPADHYAY teaches at the Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Calcutta. ALAN KENNEDY is Professor of English ai Dalhousie University, Halifax Canada. ERIC MOTTRAM is Professor of American Studies at University of London. ASHISH RAJADrtYAKSHA is a freelance journalist from Bombay. He has published a book titled Ritwik Ghatak: A Return to the Epic. KALPANA SAHNI teaches Russian Language and Literature at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. KtJMKUM SANGARI teaches English at Indraprastha College, University of Delhi.