256 Barbara StoLer Miller, teaches Sanskric and Indian literature at Barnard College^ Columbia University, She has translated Bhartrihari; Poems and prepared an edition of the CaurapanoaSika attributed to Bilhana^ entitled Phantasies cf a Love-Thief, Vidya Niwas Misra: Professor of Linguistics at Sanskrit University, Varanasi, author of The Descriptive Technique of Panini and ediLor-translator of Modem Hindi Poetry:, has published several books of essays and literary criticism in Hindi, Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan: is Chef de Cabinet to the Secretary-General of che United Nations and Depaty Administrator of the United Nations Development Programo He is an accomplished musician and the author oi The Mahabharata: An English Version Based on Selected Verses. Leonard Nathan: t-eaches in the Department of Rhetoric at Berkeley, His translations cf Hindi poetry are published in Modern Hindi Poetry: An Anthology „ ediced by Vidya Niwas Misrac He is currently working wich Professor Misra and S.Ho Vaisyayan on translations of ^"radit i onaJ Indian verse Wendy Doniger O'Flaherly; le^ :jrcs GB che ancient histcry of South Asia at the School of OrienLal and African Studies of the University ot London She has contributed a chapter to R. Gordon Wasson^ book Soma: Divine Mushroom of Imrnorta/ity and^articles on "Asceticism and Sexuality ^n the Mythology of Siva" to History of Be I bgion^ Ron Padgett: is a New York poet who pursued an earlier interest in Indian literature while studying at Columbia Collegee His published works irrlude Bean Spasm's, collaborations with Ted Ber'-igan; a translation of Gail Laimio Apollinaire1 s The Poet Assasi^ated^ The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Jim and Ron, a words-and-p: .fares book with Jim D:r Debt Prssanaa Panrani/ak: is DiTecrn ot tne Central Institute of Indian Languages of the Government ^i India in Mysore. He is the author of works in linguistics and literature, the most recent of which is Asp^at^ r f Applied LwguLStIcb. He has written a history of Oriya literatd'e in 0 3 yd, Robert Pi^.enger: ^ho&e Mahabalipvram sketch is on the cover of this .ssue, is d. New York artist with a long-standing interest in Asian ari termsc Mz^garet Be RiL^a'di: IF ^ graduate student in Oriental Studies at the Univer-^ty oi Pennsylvania With her husband^ Ted 5 she lived for rhree ye-3rs in Nepal and India