Nude: Poems (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789352776092)

Vishal Bhardwaj is a film-maker, writer, composer and producer. He has directed nine feature films, produced five and composed music for more than forty. His directorial work, which has won him three international awards and seven national film awards, includes Makdee, The Blue Umbrella, Kaminey, 7 Khoon Maaf, Matru Ki Bijli Ka Mandola, Rangoon, as well as the internationally acclaimed Shakespeare trilogy: Maqbool, Omkara and Haider (adapted from Macbeth, Othello and Hamlet, respectively). He has recently begun his stage career by directing A Flowering Tree by John Adams in the Theatre du Chatelet, Paris, and composing music for Monsoon Wedding: The Musical in Berkeley, California.

Born and brought up in Kenya, Sukrita Paul Kumar is a well-known poet, critic and translator. She is an honorary fellow of the International Writing Programme, University of Iowa (USA), as also of the Hong Kong Baptist University and Cambridge Seminars. She is honorary faculty at the Durrell Centre at Corfu (Greece). She has published many collections of poems, volumes of critical writing and translations. Her books include Without Margins, Poems Come Home, Blind, Narrating Partition, Mapping Memories and many others. Sukrita has also held solo exhibitions of her paintings.