Intizar Husain was born in Dibai, India in 1925 and migrated to Pakistan in 1947. His published works include seven collections of short stories, five novels, nine plays, travelogues and essays in Urdu and English. His works have been translated into many of the world languages. He was the recipient of many literary awards, his novel Basti was short-listed for the Man Booker International prize in 2013. In 2012, he was given the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Lahore Literary Festival and in 2014, he was conferred the French Officer de L’Ordre des Arts et des Letters. He passed away in 2016.Nishat Zaidi is a Professor, Department of English at the Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. A scholar, critic and translator, she has a number of published works to her credit. She has co-edited, Story is a Vagabond: Fiction, Essays and Drama by Intizar Husain (Special Issue of Manoa, University of Hawaii, 2015)Alok Bhalla has published extensively on literature, translation and politics. He was recently a Fellow at Mahatma Gandhi’s Sabarmati Ashram and at the Institute for Advanced Study at Nantes, France. His recent publications include Story is a Vagabond: Fiction, Essays and Drama by Intizar Huisain and A Chronicle of the Peacocks (stories by Intizar Husain)