Mrinal Pande earned an MA in English from Allahabad University. She edited Vama, a women’s magazine, and Saptahik Hindustan, a weekly news magazine, and currently co-edits the daily newspaper, Hindustan (in Hindi). She’s published four plays, two novels and four collections of short fiction. She works with broadcasting, writing and producing serials for television and appears regularly on talk shows. Her poetry appears in Smartish Pace, Issue 14. [bio updated 2007]