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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
The twenty research articles in this anthology were originally presented as papers at National and International Conferences and later published in various journals and edited anthologies. Updated and fine-tuned now, the articles represent several kinds of literatures with one comparative analysis between ancient Greek and Tamil literature, one on postcolonial feminist fictions in Canadian literature, one on disability studies in American literature, two on the connection between literature and stylistics, three on English translations from Marathi, Telugu and Tamil, two on Indian Dalit literature in English and eight on Indian literature in English covering poetry, drama, fiction, and non-fiction. These articles will definitely interest any serious student of literature or a knowledge-thirsty researcher.
DR. D. GNANASEKARAN
Dr. D. Gnanasekaran, M.A., M.Phil. (Stylistics), Ph.D. (ELT), PGDJMC (IGNOU- Gold Medalist) is a former Professor and Head of the Department of English at Kanchi Mamunivar Centre for Postgraduate Studies, Puducherry. He has forty years of collegiate teaching and research experience and is a bilingual writer, poet, short story writer, critic, translator, broadcaster, reviewer and is also a communication skills consultant. He has authored several books such as Indian Writing in English Today: Insights for the Future (2014), Stylistics of Poetry: A Practical Approach (2018), Are You My Dad? And Other Stories (2018) and A Divine Visit and the Human Touch: A Collection of Short Stories (2019). His English translations include The Madcap in 2015 (Piththan, an anthology of Tamil poems by Kavikko Abdul Rahman), The Girl My Age in 2017 (Enchottu Pen, a collection of Tamil poems by Thamizhachi Thangapandian) and Dr. T. Ramanayagam: A Biography in 2017 besides numerous translations of various genres published in journals and magazines. About seventy-eight of his research articles have been published in reputed journals as well as edited critical anthologies.
