THE SILENCE OF THE HYENA by Syed Muhammad Ashraf

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.