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Avadesh Kumar Singh (1960-) is Vice Chancellor, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Open University since August 1, 2006. Prior to the present assignment, he was Professor and head, Dept. of English and Comparative Literary Studies, Saurashtra University, Rajkot; and Coordinator, University Grants Commission (UGC) Special Assistance Programme (SAP) /DRS) on "Indian Renaissance Literature with Special reference to English, Gujarati and Hindi". The areas of his interest include Indian and Western literacy theories, comparative literature, Indian literature and translation, Indian literature and translation studies on which he has published 10 books and more than 75 papers in various journals and anthologies of academic repute. Indian Knowledge Systems, 2 vols. (2005) and Discourse of resistance in the colonial Period (2005) are among his last publications. Also he has delivered Keynote Addresses to many national and international seminars. He is the editor of critical Practice, a journal of literary and critical studies since 1994.

Dr. R.S. PATHAK is Professor and Head of the Department of English & Other European Languages at Doctor Harisingh Gour University ( formerly university of Saugar), Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India. He obtained Ph.D. in 1971 and D.Litt. in 1986 from the University of Saugar. He also holds a Post-graduate Diploma in English & Foreign Languages, Hyderabad, and a Master's degree from the University of Wales, U.K. Dr. Pathak was selected as a UGC National Associate and went to UK on a British Council award for higher studies. He has published research papers on a variety of topics in reputed journals. He has authorised eight books : Oscar Wilde : A Critical Study; Oblique Poetry in Indian and Western Poetics; Poetic and Non-Poetic Discourse; Language Variation and English Language Teaching : The Indian Context ; Aspects of Comparative Poetics ; Indian Fiction in English : Problems and Promises ( edited ) ; The Phonetics of Bagheli ; Vakrokti and stylistic concepts.