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Mala Pandurang is Head, Department of English, Dr. BMN College, Mumbai. She has taught at the postgraduate departments of the SNDT Women’s Universities and the University of Miumbai. She is also a Post-doctoral Fellow of the Alexander von Humaboldt Foundation, Germany. Her current areas of research interest are diaspora and gender studies. Her publications include Postcolonial African Fiction: A Crisis of Cosciousness (1997), Articulating Gender (Co-ed) (2000), and Vikram Seth: Multiple Locations, Multiple Affiliations (2002). and Mediating Indian Writing in English: German Responses (co-ed.) (Jaipur: 2005 and Berlin: 2006).

Bernd-Peter Lange, Professor of Literary and Cultural studies at Magdeburg University, has taught British Studies and European Studies at Free University Berlin, Technical University Braunschweig, Oldenburg University and, as Visiting, Sofia and Wroclav Universties. His publications include books on Dickens, Orwell, genre poetics, Utopian writing, cultural criticism as well as articles on modern British and Irish literature, cultural studies and Indian cultural history. He is a member of the World Council of the Tagore-Einstein Foundation, Santiniketan, West Bengal.