Anwar Dil was born in Jullundur, Punjab, and raised in Abbottabad in the North-West Frontier Province. Educated at Government College, Lahore; Islamia College, Peshawar; University of Michigan; and Indiana University. He was Professor of Language Science and Communication at United States International University in San Diego, California (1973-2003). In Pakistan he served for sixteen years as Lecturer in English Literature at a number of colleges, and as Professor and Language Specialist at the West Pakistan Education Extension Centre, Lahore. He is the author and editor of over forty books including nineteen volumes in the distinguished Language Science and National Development Series published by Stanford University Press. His internationally acclaimed books include: Humans in Universe (1983), Norman Borlaug on World Hunger (1997) and Bengali Language Movement and Creation of Bangladesh (with Afia Dil, 2000, 2011) and six books on Intercultural Bangladesh (sixth book: An Intercultural Collage, 2012). /// Afia Dil was born and raised in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Educated at the University of Dhaka; University of New Zealand; University of Michigan; and Stanford University. She was Professor of English at Eden Girls’ College, Dhaka (1954-61) and Professor and Language Specialist at the East Pakistan Education Extension Centre, Dhaka (1961-62) and at the West Pakistan Education Extension Centre, Lahore (1962-65). She has taught at the Centre for South Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Missouri, Columbia, and in the Department of Linguistics at the San Diego State University. She was Professor of Linguistics and Communication at United States International University until 2003. Her books in Bengali include, among others, her acclaimed travelogue Je desh mone pare and Bengali version of Helen Keller‘s My Teacher. Her books in English: Two Traditions of the Bengali Language (Cambridge, 1991) and Bengali Nursery Rhymes (2010) have been internationally acclaimed.