Gulzar, Pawan Varma and Sukrita Paul Kumar Part 13

Gulzar's poetry on the mountains along with Pawan Varma and Sukrita Paul Kumar inside the Parker Hall at Woodstock School, Mussoorie during the Writers' Festival 2012.

Gulzar is a renowned poet, filmmaker, lyricist and writer. He has written several collections of poetry including Jaanam, Kuch aur Nazme, Chand Pukhraj Ka, Triveni, and Autumn Moon, and collections of short stories, Chauras Raat, Dhuan, Ravi Paar, Splinter and Other Stories and Kharaashein. Apart from making a significant televsion series on Mirza Ghalib, he has scripted over fifty films including Anand, Guddi, Bawarchi, Namak Haram, Khamoshi, Aaandhi, Mausam, Khushboo, Parichay and Maachis. He has received many honours as a film director, writer and lyricist. Gulzar received a Padma Bhushan in 2004 and the Academy Award for Best Original Song, Jai Ho (Slumdog Millionaire)in 2009. He also won an international Grammy Award for the same.

Sukrita Paul Kumar, born in Kenya, currently lives in Delhi, writing poetry and teaching literature. An Honorary Fellow of the prestigious International Writing Programme, University of Iowa (USA), Cambridge Seminars and a former Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, she was also an invited poet in residence at Hong Kong Baptist University, China. Honorary faculty at the Durrell Centre at Corfu (Greece) and a recipient of many international fellowships and residencies, she has lectured and read poems in many institutions in India and abroad. She has published several collections of poems in English that include Without Margins, Apurna, Folds of Silence and Oscillations.

Writer-diplomat Pavan K. Varma is a graduate in History from St. Stephen's College, after which he took a degree in Law from the University of Delhi. He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1976. He has been Press Secretary to the President of India, the Spokesman of the Ministry of External Affairs, Joint Secretary for Africa, High Commissioner for India in Cyprus, Director of the Nehru Centre in London and Director General of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, New Delhi.

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Tete a tete with three art genius in Mussorie