This is the introduction to Treasurer of Piggy Banks by Vinod Kumar Shukla, a bilingual edition of his poems, selected and translated by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra.

The poet and novelist Vinod Kumar Shukla may well be called the sphinx ... The present volume contains Mehrotra’s translations of about 75 poems selected from Shukla’s poetry collections ...

Poet, translator, essayist, and editor Arvind Krishna Mehrotra was born in Lahore and educated at the universities of Allahabad and Bombay. He is the author of four books of poems, Nine Enclosures ...

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s translation of Shukla’s poems ... that is meant to be read and gifted to poetry lovers. Vinod Kumar Shukla is a poet who speaks most intimately to us from a far ...

Poet Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (Pradeep Gaur/Mint) 72pp, ₹399; Westland The collection begins with Book of Rahim on the poet, translator and Mughal military general.

Excerpted with permission from Book of Rahim & Other Poems, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, published under Westland – Literary Activism, a new publishing imprint of Westland and the Centre for the ...