Anisur Rahman, formerly a Professor of English at Jamia Millia Islamia, a Central
University in New Delhi, is currently Senior Advisor at Rekhta Foundation
<www.rekhta.org>, the world’s largest website on Urdu language, literature, and culture. He has worked and published in the areas of Comparative, Translation, and Postcolonial Studies with reference to India, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, as also the new literary cultures of South Asia. He has to his credit three books authored by him, four edited/co-edited volumes, a collection of modern Urdu poetry in English translation and a large number of English poems translated into Urdu. He has been a Shastri Fellow at the University of Alberta, Canada (2001-2002) and a Visiting Scholar at Purdue University, USA (2007)