Ashwani Kumar is a poet, writer, and professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai. His major anthologies include My Grandfather’s Imaginary Typewriter and Banaras and the Other. Recently his select poems titled Architecture of Alphabets have been translated into Hungarian for a special volume. He is one of the chief editors of Global Civil Society at London School of Economics and the co-founder of the ‘Indian Novels Collective’ which aims to promote the translation of Indian language novels. He writes a regular book column for the Financial Express.