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Keerti Ramachandra is a fiction editor, multilingual translator and teacher.  With a Masters in literature and an M Phil inj linguistics she has been teaching in schools and colleges in India and abroad.  She is currently teaching a course in Creative Non-Fiction and Structures in English at Xavier Institute of Communication, Mumbai.  She can translate from Kannada, Marathi and Hindi and has been actively associated with Katha as a fiction editor.  Her interests include art history and art appreciation, Hindustani classical music, dance, handicrafts and folk art.  Besides Hindi, Marathi and Kannada, she is fluent in Konkani and Tamil and has a working knowledge of Gujarati and Bangla.

VISHWAS PATIL, recipient of the 1992 Sahitya Akademi Award, is a prominent novelist and playwright in Marathi. Born on 28th November, 1959 of farmer parents in the small village of Nerle in Maharashtra, Mr. Patil is today an I.A.S. officer in the Maharashtra cadre. Jhadazadati, the novel that fetched him the Sahitya Akademi Award is based on the life and plight of the people displaced by the construction of big dams. Widely translated into almost all languages in India, Mr. Patil’s social and historical novels have a mass as well as a class appeal. Mahanayak was the result of an extensive study and research for seven years during which Mr. Patil traveled through Japan, Germany, England and Burma, where Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and his Indian National Army had created history. The novel, which came out of a long arduous research, was originally published in Marathi and went into six editions.