David Shulman is Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He is a specialist in the languages, literatures, and cultures of southern India, and a highly respected cultural critic.Velcheru Narayana Rao is a renowned scholar and translator. Along with coauthor David Shulman, he was the 2004 recipient of the A.K. Ramanujan Prize for Translation from the Association for Asian Studies for Classical Telugu Poetry: An Anthology.
