Ratnakar D. Bhelkar is an Associate Professor of English at Dhanwate National College, Nagpur, and a poet, short story writer, prose lyricist, critic, and translator working in both Marathi and English. His book Indian Literature: Translated Texts, Indianness and Beyond, published by Atlantic Publishers, critically examines translated texts in Indian literature and investigates questions of Indianness across works by writers such as Vivekananda, Tukadoji, Arun Kolatkar, and Jayant Mahapatra.