Asima Ranjan Parhi is Professor and Head, Department of English at Utkal University, Odisha. He was formerly the Dean, Faculty of Languages, Professor and Head of the Department of English at Rajiv Gandhi Central University, Arunachal Pradesh. Author of a book Indian English through Newspapers, Parhi has published a number of research papers in reputed journals like Translation Studies, Indian Literature, Journal of English and Foreign Languages, Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences and book chapters in publications from Springer, Routledge and Penguin. An Associate of Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, Parhi is the author of an anthology of poems, Of Sons and Fathers. His forthcoming publications include an edited anthology on Gopinath Mohanty and Tales from Sarala Mahabharata in prose from Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi. He is passionate about Old Odia classics some of which he sings and translates.