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Chandrakant Langare is an Associate Professor of English at Shivaji University, Kolhapur, M.S. India. He has published articles on Joseph Conrad’s novels, film studies, culture studies, and Dalit studies in edited books and journals. He has published book reviews in journals of national and international repute. He has coedited two Global Interdisciplinary Commemorative Books on Mahatma Gandhi, Reflections on Mahatma Gandhi: The Global Perspectives and Rethinking Mahatma Gandhi: The Global Appraisal (Rawat, 2021), with the late Prof. Terry Beitzel, Director, Gandhi Centre, James Madison University, Virginia, USA. He has presented papers on Dalit autobiographies and films of Shyam Benegal at PAMLA and NEMLA conferences held at Seattle University, Washington, and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA. He has presented a paper on early modern Indian poets at the 42nd EMS Conference 2014 at the University of Reading, England. He has presented research papers on Joseph Conrad’s fiction at Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy; the University of Kent, England; and UMCS, Lublin, Poland. In 2012, he was invited by the Mahatma Gandhi Centre at James Madison University, where he delivered a talk on ‘Mahatma Gandhi on Celluloid’ at the Beitzel Symposium, September 27–28, 2023. He has delivered several keynote speeches at national and international conferences across universities and colleges in India and worked as a resource person for 50 UGC-sponsored refresher courses for college and university teachers.