Dr. Indira Nityanandam, Principal (Retd), Smt. S.R.Mehta Arts College, Ahmedabad, was Director, Bharatiya Bhasha Sanskriti Sansthan, Gujarat Vidyapith. She was vising faculty at IIM, Ahemedabd and is presently with EDI (Gadhinagar) as visiting faculty. She has presented papers in national and international conferences. She is Associate Editor of GNOSIS, a literary journal and has published six books. Her recent publications include Varanasix, a collaborative novel with Anu Chopra and Altitudinis, a ten-author collaborative novel. Her areas of interest are translation studies, ELT, Indian writing in English and Dalit literature. Her translations include Tamil poetry into Gujarati with a grant from Sahitya Akademi, a collection of Tamil stories in Gujarati, and Narayan Desai’s Gandhi Katha, the last of which she considers as her most fulfilling work.