Chamba Achamba: Women’s Oral Culture

Formerly a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, Sukrita Paul Kumar has been writing and publishing extensively on modern Hindi and Urdu fiction.  Her critical works include Conversations on Modernism, The New Story, and Man, Woman and Androgyny.  She has also edited a number of critical volumes including Ismat: Her Life, Her Times, Mapping Memories and Women’s Studies in India: Contours of Change.  A published poet, her collections include Folds of Silence, Oscillations and Apurna.  She was also nominated for the International Writing Programme at Iowa in 2002.  Translations have been published by the National Book Trust.  A recipient of several grants and fellowships, she has lectured and given readings in many universities in India and abroad, including Cambridge, SOAS, University of Hong Kong, York University in Toronto and University of California in Irvine.