Images of Delhi: A Literary and Humanistic Geography of Post-Independence India

Ramesh Chandra Dhussa, Professor Emeritus geography, taught geography for more than 30 years in the Drake university, Des Moines, Iowa, the USA. He completed his Ph.D. in geography from the Kent State university, Kent, Ohio, in the year 1986. His M.A., also in geography, is from the University of Akron, Ohio, USA in the year 1976. In India, he completed his M.A. in geography in the year 1961, from Patna university, Patna, Bihar. His research in graduate studies focused on humanistic and literary geography. He is among the pioneer to use the term 'literary geography' in the literature. Ramesh published a couple of books, one in geography on South Asia (Global Studies: India and South Asia) and another a story collection book of his short stories (Bahut Accha Aadmi, in Hindi). Ramesh's stories are published in various prestigious Hindi short story journals. He has published more than a dozen geography research papers in various national and international journals andanthologies. He is a member of the editorial board of the Literary Geography Journal. He is planning to write literary geography papers based on the writings of Indian writers of various times. In addition, he also devotes time in short story writing.