Ananta Charan Sukla As We Know Him edited by Professor Bishnu Charan Dash
Ananta Charan Sukla is a name to reckon with in the world of scholarship and institution building. The Vishvana- the Kaviraja Institute of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics was founded by him in 1977 to publish the Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (inception 1978), an international half-yearly journal. He had the privilege of collaborating with renowned international scholars like René Wellek, Mircea Eliade, Monroe Beards- ley, M. H. Abrams, John Hospers, Harold Osborne, John Boulton, John Fisher, and many renowned Indian scholars. The journal aims at promoting multidisciplinary studies and research in comparative literature, aesthetics, literary and cultural theory, philosophy and criticism of the arts, and history of ideas. He is also a founder member of the editorial board of the International Yearbook of Aesthetics and Comparative Aesthetics. A cross between a felicitation volume and a Festschrift, this book was precipitated into birth by the sudden ...
