CONTENTS: Acknowledgements, Foreword by Simon Gikandi, Preface, PART ONE: 1. My Early Life and Education, 2. I Begin My Career as an English Teacher, 3. My Research and Social Life in the United States, 4. My Travels Though Europe, 5. Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, 6. American Studies Research Centre, Hyderabad, 7. My Advent into Theory in Baroda, PART TWO: 1. Teaching Theory in Refresher Courses, 2. The Forum and Its Journal, 3. Centre for Contemporary Theory, 4. Disseminating Theory: The "Theory/Praxis Courses", 5. The Forum's International Conferences 1998-2010, 6. International Conferences Continued 2011-2019, 7. International Recognition, 8. Balvant Parekh Centre for General Semantics and Other Human Sciences, 9. Afterword by Dilip K Das, Name Index.