Akshaya Kumar
Prof. Akshaya Kumar is a Professor of English at Panjab University, Chandigarh. He received critical attention for his book Poetry, Politics and Culture (Routledge, 2009) and his co-edited volume Cultural Studies in India (Routledge, 2016). He has co-translated and edited Sudeep Sen’s English poems into Punjabi under the title Gau-Dhur Vela (Autumn, 2021). He is at present writing A Critical History of Punjabi Literature – a project commissioned by Orient Blackswan.
Obituary by Akshaya Kumar
Punjab has been a difficult region.To speak in the language of this volatile region is an ordeal, a death-defying act. The poets of Punjab cannot afford to be poets alone, they have the cultural obligation to speak for its restless people in their idiom and ideology. Poetry, popularity and politics constitute