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.