Shikoh Mohsin Mirza, whose interests include Narratology and Philosophical Hermeneutics, has been teaching at the Department of English and Modern European Languages, University of Lucknow, Lucknow (India) since 2007. He has also taught English at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, for more than a decade. He is the author of a critical book Narrative Consciousness: The Role of the Narrator in Fiction, and has also published scholarly essays widely in India and abroad. He is currently working on a work of fiction about experiences of living in a majoritarian society.