Lakshmi Bandlamudi is Professor of Psychology at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York. E.V. Ramakrishnan is Professor Emeritus, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies at Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, Gujarat. He is an authority on South Asian comparative literature, and a bilingual writer who has published poetry and literary criticism in Malayalam and English. Among his critical books in English are Interdisciplinary Alter-natives in Comparative Literature (co-edited, Sage, 2013), Locating Indian Literature: Texts, Traditions and Translations (Orient Blackswan, 2011) and Making It New: Modernism in Malayalam, Marathi and Hindi Poetry (IIAS, Shimla, 1995). He has three volumes of poetry in English: Being Elsewhere in Myself (1980), A Python in a Snake Park (1994), and Terms of Seeing: New and Selected Poems (2006). He has over 150 published research papers in the areas of comparative literature, translation studies, South Asian studies, marginality studies and post-colonial literatures.