Mustansir Dalvi is a poet, translator and editor. He has three books of poems in English, Brouhahas of Cocks, Cosmopolitician and Walk. His poems have been translated into French, Croatian, Hindi, Gujarati and Marathi. He has translated Muhammad Iqbal’s influential Shikwa and Jawaab-e-Shikwa from the Urdu into English as Taking Issue and Allah’s Answer. He is the editor of Man without a Navel a collection of translations of Hemant Divate’s poems from the Marathi. He teaches architecture in Mumbai.