Bijoy H. Boruah is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Currently he is Visiting Professor of Philosophy at IIT Delhi. Professor Boruah has published papers on a wide range of topics in philosophy and literature. He has published a book entitled Fiction and Emotion: A Study in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Mind (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988) and has edited a book entitled Social Reality and Tradition (Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2006).