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Akhil Katyal

Akhil Katyal is a writer, translator and scholar. He has published four books of poems: The Last Time I Saw You: Poems (2024), Like Blood on the Bitten Tongue: Delhi Poems (2020), How Many Countries Does the Indus Cross (2018), and Night Charge Extra (2015), and he co-edited The World that Belongs to Us: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from South Asia (2020). He is the Associate Professor of Literature at BITS Law School in Mumbai. Years: 2025, 2021.