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.