Alladi Uma and M Sridhar teach English at the University of Hyderabad and have been doing collaborative work in translation. Their translations as well as articles on the subject have appeared in many journals. They published a translation of a collection of short stories by Volga entitled The Woman Unbound: Selected Short Stories. They won the Jyeshtha Literary Award and Katha Commendation Prize for their translations. They have helped the Sahitya Akademi bring out two special issues of Indian Literature on contemporary Telugu writing. Their translation of Rachakonda Viswanathasastry’s Govulostunnayi Jagratta is being brought out by Sahitya Akademi.