This collection of essays honours Prof. Harish Trivedi, by surveying the three fields to which he has made signal contributions – criticism of Indian literature, translation, and postcolonial studies. Eminent scholars, some of whom have shaped these fields, look back on the work of a lifetime, and a couple of younger scholars follow in their wake. The interconnectedness of the three fields emerges in some essays, while in others they retain their independent boundaries. Contested questions are discussed, as some scholars emphasize the centrality of pleasure to reading, while others insist on the need for literature to mould the reader in particular ways. This volume demonstrates the transnational scale of literary conversations about India (the contributors are connected to more than a dozen countries by birth, residence and work), and also the continuing vigour of several methodologies, from postcolonial neo-Marxism to Asian theories of poetics and rhetoric to close reading and historicism.