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Sutinder Singh Noor is the Vice President of the Sahitya Akademi and an eminent Punjabi poet and critic. He won a Sahitya Akedemi award for his book of criticism Kavita di Bhoomika. Noor is an institution in the world of Punjabi letters and known for his love of
poetry and poets. He has been an admirer of the poetry of Surjeet Patar and Amitoj. Noor himself pens poetry but is better known for his criticism. A former head of the Department of Punjabi, Delhi University,
and editor of Punjabi Akademi journal Samdarshi, Noor is well known in Punjab’s literary circles.

Harish Narang is a Professor of English at the Centre of Linguistics and English, Jawaharlal Nehru University, where he teaches Course on African Writings in English, Canadian Literature and Literary Translation. His recent publications have been in these very fields as also on Dalit Writings in Hindi and Indian-
Canadian Diaspora Writings. He is currently working on an English translation of Nirala's Bilesur Bakariha, a monograph on Manto and a collection of his stories in Hindi. Professor Narang is a committed environmentalist and a keen photographer.

Chiranjib Basu was born in 1968 in Darjeeling. A graduate in Arts from North Bengal University (1988), he started writing poetry in the early 1990s. He received the prestigious Krittibas award for best young poet in 2006. The Ministry of Culture, Government of
India awarded him a fellowship for his research on literature in 2007. He is the author of four books of poems and one book of short stories. He edits a Bengali magazine called Kobikatha since 1994. His first book of poems in English will be published in
March 2009. Basu has participated in various literary workshops organised by Sahitya Akademi. He is also a stage and TV actor and an active member of Group Theatre. He works in the airline industry

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