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Dr. Ishmeet Kaur teaches at the Centre for English Studies at Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar. Her latest interests have been on issues related to women and violence, its after-effect and their representation. She has been working in diverse areas, such as, Literatures from the Margins; Post-colonial Studies; Sikh Studies and Indian and Australian Literature.

She has been continuously translating women’s experiences from Punjabi into English and from English into Punjabi. She has translated works of Bushra Ezaj, Pakistani writerand Veena Verma, Punjabi Diasporic writer; and Australian Aboriginal writer Jeanine Leane’s book Dark Secrets: After Dreaming(AD)1887--1961 from English into Punjabi (2014). She also edited a volume on Patrick White, Patrick White: Critical Issues, 2014.

Her latest book Texting the Scripture: Sri Guru Granth Sahib and the Visionary Poetics of Patrick White, was published in 2016.

She was nominated by her University as an Inspired Teacher for President of Indian’s In-residence Program at Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi in June, 2015.

She is also an IUC Associate at IIAS, Shimla since 2016.

This book is a revised and reprint of Bushra Ezaj’sJust Before the Dream; Translated by Ishmeet Kaur (2011).