The Poet and the Poem
2026-27 Series

Featured Dr. Nishi Chawla

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Dr Nishi Chawla is an academic and a writer. She has published eleven plays, three novels, and eight collections of poetry, and has written and directed four award-winning art-house feature films. She co-edited two global poetry anthologies, Greening the Earth and Singing in the Dark, published by Penguin Random House. She holds a Ph.D. from George Washington University, Washington D. C., and completed post-doctoral research at Johns Hopkins University. She taught English Literature for forty years, including nearly two decades as a tenured Professor at Delhi University.

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