After Gujarat and Other Poems

Seeme Qasim was born in 1958 and edcated mostly on the west coast of India. She started her career as a journalist in Bombay and then worked for some media groups in Delhi, including The Times of India and The Indian Express. She is the author of an earlier collection of poems, Beyond October (1997), which dealt in part with the destruction of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, and the subsequent riots. Seeme Qasim’s articles have appeared in several publications, including the Penguin Book of Indian Journeys (2001) edited by Dom Moraes, and City Improbable (2001), edited by Khushwant Singh.