Dr. Basavaraj Naikar, Professor Emeritus, Former Professor and Chairman, Department of English, Karnatak University, Dharwad 580003 is a well known creative writer and critic in both English and Kannada. So far he has published four novels, three novellas, three plays and two collections of short stories in English, more than twenty-five critical works in English and more than thirty books in Kannada including creative writing.