Ashwani Kumar is a poet, writer, and professor at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Mumbai). His major anthologies include My Grandfather’s Imaginary Typewriter and Banaras and the Other. Recently his select poems have been translated for a special volume titled Architecture of Alphabets in Hungarian. He is also co-founder of Indian Novels Collective. Besides columnist in several magazines and newspapers, including The Hindu, Business Standard, Times of India, Outlook India, he also writes a regular book column in The Financial Express. He can be reached at [email protected]