Dr Uma Damodar Sridhar is a French teacher and translator with over 30 years of experience. She is currently an Associate Professor at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad where she teaches French language, linguistics, teaching methodology, and translation. She previously worked at the Alliance Française of Hyderabad as a teacher and translator (1988-2000), and as Translation bureau in-charge and Deputy-Director (2005-2009). She has published articles and translations in national and international journals and is a co-translator of an anthology of poems Butterfly Caresses (2015).