Meher Bhoot is currently Associate Professor and Head at the Department of German, University of Mumbai. Her doctoral thesis was on Cultural Identity and Interculturality in the Works of Rafik Schami. She has been a DAAD Fellow and was awarded the Rotary Cultural and Ambassadorial Scholarship in 1997. Her areas of interest are Migrant Literature and Postcolonial Theory. Her publications include Einfach menschlich. Kurzprosa aus Indien (2011) and Interkulturelle Momente. Hundred Years of German Studies at the University of Mumbai (2014).