A distinguished student and teacher of Marathi literature, Kamal Desai was born in 1928. Among her major books are Ratrandin Amha Yuddhacha Prasanga (We Are Confronting the War, Day and Night); Ranga (1962); Kala Surya and Hat Ghalnari Bai (1975). Sukhmani Roy is head, Department of English Literature and Language at P.N. Doshi College of Arts and K.U. R.Shah Women's College of Commerce, Ghatkopar, Bombay.