Nainital
Literature
Festival

Anisur Rahman is a literary critic, translator, and bilingual poet in English and Urdu, and the recipient of the prestigious Sahitya Akademi award for English translations in 2024 for his book, “Hazaaron Khwahishein Aisi”. A former professor of English at Jamia Millia Islamia and senior advisor at Rekhta Foundation, he has published extensively in comparative, translation, postcolonial, and Urdu studies. His notable works include Earthenware: Sixty Poems, In Translation: Positions and Paradigms, Socioliterary Cultures in South Asia, Hazaaron Khwahishein Aisi,  Hazaar Rang Shaairi, and his latest publication "The Essential Ghalib" (2024) by Harper Collins. Anisur has also been a Shastri Fellow at the University of Alberta, Canada, and a visiting scholar at Purdue University, USA.