I am currently teaching English and American Literature at the University of Allahabad, India. I have been teaching here since 1978. I also taught (1987-1988) at the Pasadena City College, California, while I was there on a post-doctoral study project. My primary interest is in psychoanalytic theory and modernist and post-modernist literature, and the critical methodology I mainly use is the British School of object-relations psychoanalytic theory. I have published psychoanalytic articles in Man and Development and Punjab University Research Bulletin. My Post-Freudian Study of D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers published in the Punjab University Research Bulletin has been listed by Paul Poplawski in D.H. Lawrence: A Reference Companion (Westport and London: Greenwood Press, 1996). I recently contributed a chapter in Writing Difference: The Novels of Shashi Deshpande (New Delhi: Pencraft International 2005). I interpreted her novel: The Dark Holds No Terrors with the help of D.W. Winnicott’s theory of therapeutic regression. I have also authored a book of short stories: The Taming of Bismarck and other stories published by HarperCollins in 1997. Alongside, I have edited the Oxford Anthology of Short Stories and wrote the Introduction to it (An Anthology of Short Stories: New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000). I also edited the section `Giant Despair’ from John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (New Delhi: Macmillan 2002). Last year (May 2004) I received the Charles Wallace British Council `writer-in-residence' award to work in the British Library, London, for my upcoming novel: She Gave Without a Price. At the start of this current year, I chaired a session on American Studies at the Third Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Jan 13-16, 2005. Using D.W. Winnicott's concepts of the True Self and Transitional Spaces I presented a psychoanalytic study of Kurt Vonnegut's novels in this conference.