Mukta Atrey is Assistant Professor of English, Shri Gujrathi Science College, Indore. Her M. Phil, thesis comprised the translation from Marathi into English, of short stories by Jaywant Dalvi, several of which have been published. She completed her Ph.D. on Shashi Deshpande in 1993 at I.I.T., Bombay. She has three published Essays in critical anthologies. \n\nViney Kirpal is Professor of English and former Head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (1992-95) at I.I.T., Bombay. Her publications include The Third World Novel of Expatriation (1989), The New Indian Novel in English (1990), The Girl Child in 20th Century Indian Literature (1992), The Postmodern Indian English Novel: Interrogating the 1980s and 1990s (1997) and over 60 articles in national and international journals.