Towhid Bin Muzaffar, born in Dhaka on 21 February 1968, did his BA and MA in English Literature and Linguistics from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. He worked for several years as a Research Assistant at the Department of Linguistics of the same university. He has been teaching English at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) from June 1998. His areas of interest include Historical Linguistics with special emphasis on Algonquian and Indo-European languages; endangered languages; computational linguistics, particularly phonological reconstructions of proto- forms, simulating reflexes and so on. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haroonuzzaman, a translator, novelist, poet and essayist, was born in Dhaka on January 13, 1951. He has been teaching at home and abroad (Libya, Qatar) for about 30 years. For the past 15 years, he has been teaching English at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB). Since 2005, he has published several books including a 5-book Baul Series. Besides, he was into English language journalism at The Independent and UNB and into broadcast journalism in Radio Pakistan, Dacca and Bangladesh Betar, Dhaka for about six years. He was the only Asian who worked as an English news broadcaster under Qatar Broadcasting Service in 1992. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Talim Hossain, PhD, born in Gazipur on September 16, 1967 is a practicing ethnographer and an academic, with around 23 years of research career including collaborative researches with anthropologists from universities in Europe. His Ph.D. dissertation titled Potential for Increasing Crop Production and Agricultural Development in Bangladesh: An Anthropological Study was from the University of Bern, Switzerland. Besides teaching Anthropology at the Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), he has been a Director and teaching faculty in the J-term academic program for the US students on Community and Development in Bangladesh under the Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs (HECUA), USA and IUB since 2002.