Sajalkumar Bhattacharya is a Lecturer (selection grade) in Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, Kolkata, West Bengal, where he has been teaching since 1996. As a Guest Lecturer, he is also attached to the University of Burdwan. He has been awarded a UGC Fellowship to write his PhD thesis on ‘Family- Nation Interface in Indian English Fiction with Special Reference to select Novels of Salman Rushdie and Amitav Ghosh.’  In April 2004, he was invited to attend the 19th Oxford Conference on the Teaching of Literature, held at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, UK, where he presented a paper on ‘Teaching Literature in Indian Classrooms.’ His areas of interest include Post-Independence Indian Fiction in English and Bhasa Literature. He has authored a book ‘In Search of Some Blessed Hope – A Critical Inquiry into Hardy’s Meliorism’, and has presented and published papers both at national and international levels.