Written by
Sunil Sharma

Sunil Sharma is Principal at Bharat College – affiliated with University of Mumbai, Mumbai – at Badlapur, Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), India. He is a bilingual critic, poet, literary interviewer, editor, translator, essayist and fiction writer. Some of his short stories and poems have already appeared, among others, in prestigious journals like: Beyond The Rainbow, Transnational Literature, Writers in Conversation (all from Australia); Hudson View (South Africa), Munyori, The Plebian Rag and the Bicycle Review (all three USA e-zines), Asia Writes; New Woman (Mumbai); Creative Saplings, Brown Critique, Muse India, Thanali and Kritya (Indian e-zines); the Seva Bharati Journal of English Studies (West Bengal), Indian Literature (of Sahitya Akademy, New Delhi), Labyrinth (Gwalior), Poets International (Bangalore), Contemporary Vibes (Chandigarh), Indian Journal of Post-colonial Literatures (Kerala), Prosopisia (Ajmer), and Seven Sisters, a daily from Assam. Some of his poems and shorts have been anthologized in national and international collections, published from India, Canada and USA, and have been featured on Boloji.com and Destiny Poets. Sunil was declared as the ICOP (International Community of Poets) Poet of the Year---2012 by the leading UK-based The Destiny Poets. His book on the Philosophy of the Novel – a Marxist Critique has generated a good critical response. His debut novel – The Minotaur – dealing with dominant ideologies and sociopolitical realities of the 20th century-- was published from Jaipur (India) in 20009. The novel was released in South Africa in December, 2009. He serves on many advisory boards of quality international literary and online journals. Besides that, he is a freelance journalist and blogger. He has had more than 1,000 news articles published in DK Plus and Times of India, Mumbai.