THE SILENCE OF THE HYENA

Author critic and translator M. ASADUDDIN writes on syncretic cultural traditions in India literature and language politics. He is currently Dean Faculty of Humanities and Languages and former director Centre for Comparative Religions and Civilizations. He was Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Rutgers University New Jersey 2008–2009 and a Charles Wallace Trust Fellow at the British Centre for Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia Norwich 2000. He has lectured at the universities of Delhi Kolkata Dhaka Paris Oxford Cambridge East Anglia Chicago Rutgers New York St. Louis North Carolina and Wisconsin. Among his twenty books are Image and Representation: Stories of Muslim Lives in India (with Mushirul Hasan) Filming Fiction: Tagore Premchand and Ray Premchand in World Languages: Translation Reception and Cinematic Representations and Premchand: The Complete Short Stories. He has received the Katha Award Dr A. K. Ramanujan Award Sahitya Akademi Award and Crossword Book Award. MUSHARRAF ALI FAROOQI is the author of Between Clay and Dust (finalist the Man Asia Literary Prize 2012) The Story of a Widow (finalist the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2008; longlisted for the IMPAC/Dublin Literary Prize) and other novels. He is the translator among other works of the epic The Adventures of Amir Hamza and Hoshruba. Farooqi is the editor of the Online Urdu Thesaurus and founder of the Storykit Program. He is a Harvard University Fellow.