Vishwadarshan, a Glimpse of the Universe (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789354402845)

Rupa Srikumar is a poet, translator and novelist. She has also written for radio and the stage. With her husband A.K. Srikumar, she translated Yasmin Khalid Rafi's Mohammad Rafi: My Abba - A Memoir (Westland) from Hindi to English. Her radio plays have been broadcast by AIR. Her adaptation of Jai Shankar Prasad's Hindi play Ajatasatru was staged in Delhi University some years ago. Rupa's first novel Mahaveer (jointly authored with A K Srikumar) was published by Rupa publications in 2019. A.K. Srikumar is a novelist, translator, poet and playwright. Srikumar also writes fiction for children. Most of his nine children's books won first or second prizes in the Children's Book Trust's annual competition. Operation Polo (1997) was adjudged the ' Best Children's Book of the Year' . Some of Srikumar's poetry has been published by the Times of India. His play Bhishma was staged in Ahmedabad (1984). His short stories have been featured in Femina, Children's World, etc. Srikumar's novels The Wonderful World of Nilayam Swamy (1981) and Conversations with a Motor-cycle (1984) were published by Writers' Workshop, Kolkata. His historical novel The Begum's Secret (Penguin, 2010) was long-listed for the Vodafone-Crossword Literary Prize. Srikumar's English translation of T.V. Varkey's Malayalam classic Maanju Pokunna Thalamurakal (The Vanishing Generations) was published in September 2017 and shortlisted for several awards. He has since also translated T.V. Varkey's novels Sooryante Maranam and Chhaaya into English. Srikumar's novel Mahaveer (jointly authored with Rupa) was published in 2019. A.K. Srikumar and Rupa live in Mumbai. Their son S. Shankar is a filmmaker and screenwriter, and daughter Rohini a Hindustani vocalist and social scientist.