In Memoriam: Ananta Charan Sukla .(In memoriam)

Sukla was a polymathic author, scholar and editor who showed extraordinary energy and vision, not only in creating and sustaining an international journal, the Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (JCLA), but in numerous scholarly projects of his own, covering literature, philosophy and aesthetics, always with a rich, well-informed, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary flair. The contents of the journal attest to this enlightened conception, free from theoretical orthodoxy, dogma, or ideology, and encouraging a broad sweep of interests, international in scope, hospitable to a diversity of approaches. In lesser hands an edited volume on the theme 'Fiction and Art' might restrict itself to some limited aspects of fictional representation in, say, literature, possibly painting.