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Rupa Srikumar is a poet, translator and novelist. She has also written for the radio and the stage. With her husband A.K. Srikumar, she has translated Yasmin Khalid Rafi’s Mohammed Rafi: My Abba - A Memoir from Hindi to English. Her radio plays have been broadcast by the All India Radio. Her adaptation of Jai Shankar Prasad’s Hindi play ‘Ajatashatru’ was staged in Delhi University some years ago. Mahaveer is Rupa’s first novel. 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. The 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 (2010) was long-listed for the Vodafone-Crossword Literary Prize. Srikumar’s English translation of T.V. Varkey’s Malayalam classic Manju Pokunna Thalamurakal (The Vanishing Generations) was published in September 2017.