Prof. Shashi Bala, M.A. (English & Philosophy), Ph.D., is presently serving as Head, Department of Guru Nanak Studies and Dean, Faculty of Humanities & Religious Studies in Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. She has edited five issues of Journal of Sikh Studies and three issues of Perspectives on Guru Granth Sahib. She is presently the editor of Journal of Sikh Studies. She has contributed several articles on the different aspects of comparative Religion; Sikh religion and Philosophy in various Journals of national and international repute.