Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Dr. Sukrita Paul Kumar, a former Honorary Fellow of the International Writing Program, presently works as a contributing editor for the literary e-journal Muse India. In this latest issue she edits the Focus article “Urdu Literature Today.” You can visit Muse India at www.museindia.com to read this article, as well as other selections from writings of both Indian and Pakistani writers, across a broad range of genres, showcasing contemporary Urdu literature.


About the contributing editor:

Dr. Sukrita Paul Kumar has published four collections of poems in English, Oscillations, Apurna, Folds of Silence and Without Margins (2005). Her poems have been published in In Their Own Voice, the Penguin collection of Indian women poets, and journals including ARIEL (Canada), Indian Literature (Sahitya Akademi), The Journal of the Poetry Society (Delhi). Her major publications include her books, Narrating Partition, Conversations on Modernism, The New Story, Breakthrough (ed.), and Man, Woman and Androgyny. She teaches literature at a Delhi University college.