Rupert Snell Rupert Snell is Emeritus Professor of Hindi in the Department of Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin, and formerly taught for thirty years at SOAS, University of London. His publications range from Hindi language primers to studies and translations of early texts in Braj Bhasha and Awadhi, such as the Satsaī of Biharilal and the Rāmcaritmānas of Tulsidas. In all such endeavours his focus is on the alchemy of the written word and the infinite variety of literary style.