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Sukrita Paul Kumar is a former fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, and has held the Aruna Asaf Ali Chair at Delhi University. An honorary faculty at Corfu, Greece, she was an invited resident poet at the prestigious International Writing Programme at Iowa, USA. She has published several collections of poems, the recent ones being Country Drive and Dream Catcher. Her critical books include Narrating Partition, The New Story and Conversations on Modernism. She has co-edited several books that include Ismat: Her Life Her Times, Cultural Diversity in India and Speaking for Myself: Asian Women’s Writings as well as published translations of Urdu and Hindi fiction. Amongst many other fellowships and residencies of international significance, she was also invited to be an honorary fellow and resident poet at HK Baptist University, Hong Kong. Her special academic interests are world literature, Partition literature, gender studies and translation. She has held solo exhibitions of her paintings. Rekha Sethi is a writer, scholar, translator and editor. She teaches Hindi literature and is Coordinator of the Translation and Translation Studies Centre, Indraprastha College, University of Delhi. Her main area of study is post-Independence Hindi poetry and fiction, gender studies and media studies. She has authored five books, edited seven and translated a poetry collection from English into Hindi. Her latest publication is an in-depth study of contemporary women poets in Hindi, critiquing and enquiring connections between gender and literature. This work has been published in two volumes – Stree-Kavita: Paksh aur Pariprekshya and Stree-Kavita: Pehchaan aur Dwandw. She recently co-organised a web-lecture series on ‘Women’s Writings in India’ with Dr. Fauzia Farooqui, South Asian Studies Program, Princeton University. She has also published extensively in leading literary journals and has presented her work at international and national conferences, literary meets and literary festivals in India, Europe and the USA.

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