Guzel’ Strelkova has worked in the Indian Department of Moscow Radio and in the Indian languages’ department of the ‘Mir’ publishing house in Moscow. She has been Associate Professor of Indian Philology at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University since receiving her PhD in Philology there in 1991. Guzel teaches Modern and Medieval Indian Literature, and Hindi and Marathi as a second Indian language. She has published more than ninety articles on Indian Literature.