Sachidananda Mohanty is Professor and Head, Department of English, University of Hyderabad. He has received several national and international awards as well as the Fulbright fellowship. He has published widely, and has to his credit seventeen books in English and in Oriya such as Understanding Cultural Exchange (1997), Literature and Culture (2001), Travel Writing and the Empire (2003), Travel Writing and Colonialism (2003) and Early Women’s Writing in Orissa 1898–1950: A Lost Tradition (2005).