Dr. (Ms.) Ishrat Ali Lalljee is an Associate Professor of English at Hinduja College, Mumbai and a Visiting Faculty at Department of English, University of Mumbai with a teaching experience that spans over twenty-five years.

Her in-depth knowledge about Ruskin Bond is the outcome of her interacting with and interviewing the author on several occasions, besides having done both her M.Phil. dissertation and Ph.D. thesis based on the writings of the author.