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C.D. Narasimhaiah born in 1921, educated at the Universities of Mysore and Cambridge; held a Rockefeller Fellowship at Princeton, was visiting Lecturer at Yale; Honorary Fellow at Wisconsin and twice Consultant at East West Centre, Hawai, was Professor of English, University of Mysore and presently Director. The Literary Criterion Centre, Dhavanyaloka. Was visiting Professor at the Universities of Leeds, U.K. Queensland and Flinders (Australia) twice in Texas (USA); Peradeniya (Sri Lanka) Indian Institute for Advanced Study in Simla (India) and twice Resident Scholar at Bellagio (Italy). Has given Nehru and Gandhi Memorial Lectures, Tagore Lectures and half a dozen other Endowment Lectures at Various Universities. He is fellow of the International Centre of Arts and Letters (Switzerland); Leonardo da Vinci Centre, Italy, was Chairman of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. Author of Jawaharlal Nehru: Writings and Speeches; Writer’s Gandhi, The Human Indian, The Swam and the Eagle, Raja Rao, Novelist, The Moving Frontiers of English Studies in India; The Function of Criticism in India Today and edited works of criticism with his own contributions. Editor of The Literary Criterion since 1952.