Prof. Rana Nayar retired as Professor from the Department of English & Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh in 2017 after 37 years of service. He has around twenty-three books to his credit. His main areas of interest are: World Drama/Theatre, Translation Studies, Literary Theory and Cultural Studies. A practising translator of repute, he has rendered around fifteen modern classics of Punjabi into English. He also has one collection of poems, Breathing Spaces and five critical books. For his translation work, he was given Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship by the UK government in 1999; and for his translation of Baba Farid, he won the first prize in an All-India contest organized by the Sahitya Akademi in 2007. For his critical work in English and Punjabi, he was given the prestigious Peter Wall Research Institute Fellowship by the Canadian government in 2014. A committed theatre lover, he has directed over twenty major, full-length productions, and has acted in almost as many.