Panchanan Mohanty, is a Professor and former Head of the Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies (CALTS), School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad, India. Besides being a translator, he has extensively published in peer reviewed International and National Journals and has many books to his credit that include Language, Culture and Society (ed. With Ramesh C. Malik, 2008), Readings in Quantitative Linguistics (ed. With R. Kohler, 2008), and Papers on Language Technology (ed. With S. Arul Mozi, 2008). He was Chief Editor of Indian Linguistics, Journal of Linguistic Society of India (1997-2002) and President of Dravidian Linguistics Association (2006-2007). Ramesh C. Malik is a UGC Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies (CALTS), School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad, India. He is a Life Member of many professional bodies. His research interests are in ethnography of translation and literary studies. He has published many papers in national journals and co-editor of Language, Culture and Society (with Panchanan Mohanty, 2008), and of the forthcoming volume: Theory and Practice of Ethnography: Readings from the Periphery with Eswarappa Kasi.Eswarappa Kasi was an ICSSR Doctoral Fellow (2003-2005) in the Department of Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad, India. He is a Life Member of a number of professional bodies. His interests include Anthropology of Livelihoods and Natural Resource Management, Tribal and Marginal Communities and their Development. He has published extensively in peer reviewed journals. He is a guest- editor of a Special Issue of Man in India on 'Issues and Perspectives in Anthropology Today' with R. Siva Prasad and of Rural Employment Generation: Issues and Strategies (forthcoming). He is also co-editor of Theory and Practice of Ethnography: Readings from the Periphery with Ramesh C. Malik. He is the editor of Rethinking Development Discourse in the 21st Century India (forthcoming).