Krishna Mohan Pandey is a Professor at the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Banaras Hindu University. His areas of interest are 18th Century British Poetry, Sanskrit Poetics, Indian English Literature, and ELT. Apart from more than thirty papers in books and journals, he has to his credit three published books: Cultural Anguish in the Poetry of Nissim Ezekiel and Kamala Das (2002), Rhyming with Reason: The Poetry of Thomas Gray (2004), and City as Kaleidoscope: Indian English Poetry in Plural Contexts (2008). He completed the UGC Major Research Project The Mahabharata and Recent Indian Fictional Imagination which is to be published soon.