Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra is the author of four books of poems, the most recent of which is The Transfiguring Places (1998). His edited books include The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets (1992), An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English (2003), The Last Bungalow: Writings on Allahabad (2007), and The Boatride and Other Poems (2009) by Arun Kolatkar. The Absent Traveller: Prākrit Love Poetry from the Gāthāsaptaśatī of Sātavāhana Hāla (1991), a volume of translations, has recently been reprinted in Penguin Classics. He is currently working on a translation of Kabir to be published by NYRB. He lives in Allahabad and Dehra Dun.