Sukrita Paul Kumar

Sukrita Paul Kumar, born and brought up in Kenya, is a former Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, and has published several collections of poems and many critical books. Honorary Fellow of Cambridge Seminars, she was also invited to participate in, and be an Honorary Fellow of the International Writing Programme, University of Iowa, USA, in 2002 and in 2004 at HK Baptist University, Hong Kong. Her books include Without Margins, Folds of Silence, Narrating Partition, Conversations on Modernism, The New Story and Man, Woman and Androgyny. Her book, Ismat, Her Life, Her Times, was published by Katha. As Director of a UNESCO project on “The Culture of Peace”, she edited a volume of Urdu short stories from India and Pakistan, Mapping Memories. In 2006, she published as Chief Editor, Cultural Diversity, Linguistic Plurality and Literary Traditions in India, Macmillan India, which is prescribed for study at University of Delhi. Her latest co-edited volume is Interpreting Homes (2007) published by Pearson Longman’s. She has been awarded many fellowships and has lectured in many universities abroad.