Sukrita PaulBorn and brought up in Kenya Sukrita lives in Delhi, writing poetry, researching and teaching literature. She has published several collections of poems in English including Rowing Together, Without Margins and Folds of Silence. Sukrita's major critial works include Narrating Partition, Conversations on Modernism, The New Story and Man, Woman and Androgyny. Some of her edited/co-edited books include Speaking for Herself: An Anthology of Asian Women's Writings, Ismat, Her Life, Her Times and Interpreting Homes in South Asian Literature. As Director of a UNESCO project on 'The Culture of Peace', she edited Mapping Memories, a volume of Urdu short stories from India and Pakistan. She has two books of translations, Stories of Joginder Paul and the novel Sleepwalkers. A solo exhibition of her paintings was held at AIFACS, Delhi. A number of Sukrita's poems have emerged from her experience of working with homeless people, Tsunami victims and street children. One of India's finest film-makers and lyricists, Gulzar lives has also been a leading author and poet in Hindustani. His books of poems include Kuchh Aur Nazmein, Pukhraaj, Triveni, Raat Pashmine Ki, Raat Chand Aur Main, Selected Poems (in translation), Splinter (in translation), Autumn Moon (in translation) and Silences (in translation). He is the author of the short story collections Raavi Paar, Kharashein, Dhuan, Addha, Habu Ki Aag (in translation), Khauf (in translation), Michelangelo (in translation) and Seema (in translation).. He received the Lifetime Honorary Fellowship from the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, in 2001, the Sahitya Academy Award for Dhuan in 2003 and the Padma Bhushan in 2004. Read More Read Less