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S. Ramaswamy obtained his M.A. first class in English Literature and received Gold Medal from Mysore University in 1954. He was a Fulbright/Smith-Mundt scholar at the University of California at Los Angeles from 1964 to 1966 and earned an M.A. in American Literature and won the Phi Beta Kappa Award. He was awarded a Ph.D. degree for his thesis on Tennessee Williams by Bangalore University in 1973. He was a British Council scholar at Oxford and London, a Senior Fulbright Fellow at Indo-Canadian scholar at McGill University, Montreal. He has been widely published in the areas of American Literature, Comparative Literature and Indological Studies. He has studied Sanskrit traditionally, and is a Fellow of Silliman College, Yale University.

Deepti Omchery Bhalla is an accomplished artist both in classical Dance and Music. In Music she has had the privilege of learning Music and Dance from great masters like Vidwan T.S. Raghavan, Prof T.N. Krishnan and Dagar brothers. A gold medalist in B.A. (Music), Deepti also had the distinction of topping the Delhi University in M. Phil. (Music). A recepient of UGC scholarship and fellowship in music and Delhi State Academy Scholarship in Dance, she has several awards and trophies to her credit. Deepti is a senior grade artise both in Dance and Music. She was sponsored by the Government of India to visit U.S.S.R for performing at the Festival of India in 1987. She has travelled extensively in Singapore, Egypt, Japan and Malaysia during recitals all over.