Text Wars
Communication, Censorship, Freedom and Responsibility
Edited by Hilda David and Francis Jarman
Author Information
Edited by Hilda David, Associate Professor of English, Symbiosis College of Arts and Commerce, Pune, and Francis Jarman, Hildesheim University, Germany
Dr. Hilda David is an Associate Professor of English at the Symbiosis College of Arts and Commerce in Pune. A novelist, playwright, stage director and teacher of creative writing, she has also written extensively for the national dailies. A consultant to the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she has coordinated and organised the Ibsen Festivals in India, and she was chosen by the English Speaking Union to represent India at the Shakespeare Workshop in London in 2008. Among her recent publications is a collection of essays, India Diversity (co-edited with Francis Jarman, 2017). Her works have been translated into Hindi, Urdu and Kannada. Dr. Francis Jarman taught English, Comparative Cultural Studies and Intercultural Communication at Hildesheim University, Germany, until his retirement in 2013. He has also taught or lectured in Egypt, Thailand and Japan and at eighteen European universities, and been a Scholar in Residence at Symbiosis, Pune, and a Visiting Professor at American College,
Madurai. He is a novelist, a playwright, and a classical numismatist. Among his publications about India are a play, A Star Fell (1998), about Cawnpore (Kanpur) in 1857; a study of sat? (2002); a short biography of Azimullah Khan (2008); and a collection of essays, India Diversity (co-edited with Hilda David, 2017)
Contributors:
Kashjyap aruni@arunikashyap.com
R. Raj Rao rajrao2015@gmail.com
M. Mohankumar mk.madampath@gmail.com
Nayantara Sahgal sahgal.nayantara@gmail.com
Githa Hariharan githahariharan@gmail.com
Perumal Murugan murugutcd@gmail.com
Dipti Nagpaul nagpauldipti@gmail.com
Kingshuk Nag kingshuknag@gmail.com
Ramu Ramanathan rramu.rramu@gmail.com
Premila Paul premilap.paul@gmail.com
Sashi Kumar sashi.acj@gmail.com