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Mustansir Dalvi is an Anglophone poet, translator and editor. He has two books of poems in English, Brouhahas of Cocks (Poetrywala, 2013) and Cosmopolitician (Poetrywala, 2018). His poems have been translated into French, Croatian, and Marathi.
Dalvi’s 2012 English translation of Muhammad Iqbal’s influential Urdu work Shikwa and Jawaab-e-Shikwa was Taking Issue and Allah’s Answer (Penguin Classics). It has been described as ‘insolent and heretical’. He is the editor of Man without a Navel a collection of translations of Hemant Divate’s poems from the Marathi (2018, Poetrywala). Mustansir Dalvi was born in Bombay. He is Professor of Architecture at Sir JJ College, Mumbai.