Atisa and the Time Machine: In Search of Kalidasa

Anu Kumar lives in Mumbai, where she works for the Economic and Political Weekly. She has studied history and management and has been writing fiction for some time. Her first collection of short stories appeared in 2002 (In Search of a Raja and Other Stories). Her stories have appeared in the Little Magazine and she was one of the winners of the Commonwealth short story competition in 2004. She was recently selected to participate in the summer writing seminars of the Sarah Lawrence College, USA.