Sukrita Paul Kumar
Sukrita Paul Kumar is an Indian poet, critic, and academic. She has been the chief editor of Cultural Diversity, Linguistic Plurality and Literary Traditions of India – a textbook prescribed by the University of Delhi for course use in its Honours B.A. programme.
Early life and background
Sukrita Paul Kumar was born in Nairobi, Kenya and emigrated to India when Kenya obtained its freedom from the British. She was educated at Zakir Husain College, Hindu College and Government College of Arts and Sciences, Marathwada University, India.Career
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.Funny part is, she does not know Urdu. Many of her poems, have emerged from her experience of working with homeless people, tsunami victims, and street children.Fellowships/Awards/Grants
Sukrita Paul Kumar was awarded the Visitorship at Concordia University for the designing of a course on Indian Women and their Lives in 2009.Books
Critical
- Narrating Partition: Texts, Interpretations, Ideas. Indialog Publications, New Delhi, 2004The New Story: A study of Literary Modernism in Urdu and Hindi Short Fiction. Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla with Allied Publishers, New Delhi, 1990Conversations on Modernism: Dialogues with Writers, Critics and Philosophers. Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla with Allied Publishers, New Delhi, 1990Man, Woman and Androgyny: A study of the Novels of Theodore Dreiser, Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Indus Publishing Co. New Delhi, 1989
Edited
The Dying Sun: Stories by Joginder Paul Edited by Sukrita Paul Kumar, HarperCollins, New Delhi, 2013Chamba Achamba Co-Edited with Malashri Lal, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 2012Speaking for Myself Co-Edited with Malashri Lal, Penguin India, New Delhi, 2009Crossing Over Co-Edited with Frank Stewart, University of Hawaii, Hawaii, 2009Interpreting Home in South Asia Co-Edited with Malashri Lal, Pearson Longman's, New Delhi, 2007Cultural Diversity, Linguistic Plurality and Literary Traditions of India Chief Editor: Sukrita Paul Kumar, Macmillan India, New Delhi, 2006 Women's Studies in India: Contours of Change Edited by Sukrita Paul Kumar and Malashri Lal,IIAS, Shimla, 2002. Ismat, Her Life Her Times Edited by Sukrita Paul Kumar and Sadique. ALT Series, Katha, New Delhi, 2000 Mapping Memories Edited by Sukrita Paul Kumar and Muhammad Ali Siddiqui. Katha, New Delhi, 1998