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Prafulla C. Kar is one of the founder editors of the Journal of Contemporary Thought, Baroda. He was until recently Professor of English at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. He was also Deputy Director of the American Studies Research Centre, Hyderabad during 1982-86. He was a Fellow at the School of Criticism and Theory at Dartmouth College, USA in 1986. Besides editing several scholarly books, he has published papers on American literature, critical theories and new literatures in English.

Kailash C. Baral is Director, Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, North-East Campus at Shillong. He is the author of the book Freud’s Theory of Arts and Literature (1994) and has edited two books, Humanities and Pedagogy: Teaching of Humanities Today (2002) and Interpretation of Texts: Text, Meaning and Interpretation (2002). He has also co-edited the book Theory and Praxis: Curriculum, Culture and English Studies (2003), and has published papers on Indian English literature, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial criticism.

Sura P Rath is currently a professor of English and Director of the William O. Douglas Honors College at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, USA. He has edited Flannery O’connor: New Perspectives (Uniersity of Georgia Press, 1996; with Mary Ann Shaw), Sitakant Mahapatra: The Mythographer of Time (2001), and Theory and Praxis: Curriculum, Culture and English Studies (Pencraft, 2003; with Kar and Baral). His articles have appeared in journals in India, Europe, and the United States. He is at work on a critical study of V.S. Naipaul.