English in the Dalit Context

Dr. D. Murali Manohar, M.A., B.Ed., M.Phil. and Ph.D. teaches English in the Department of English, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, His areas of interest are Indian English Women’s Fiction, Dalit Studies, and English Language. He has two full lenty books-Kamala Das: Treatment of love in her Poetry and Indian English Women’s Fiction: A Study of marriage, Career and Divorce. He also has three edited books to his credit apart from several articles in national and international journals and books.

K. Suneetha Rani is Reader in English at the University of Hyderabad.  She has visited Canada and Australia as a research fellow, and interviewed several Aboriginal and First Nations women writers.  She translates from English to Telugu and vice versa.  Her translations have been published in various journals and as independent books.  She is currently involved in translating Dalit women's writing from Telugu to English and Sri Lankan women's short fiction from English to Telugu.  She has recently completed her Sahitya Akademi Junior Fellowship on "Emergence of Identity in Dalit Women's Narratives."