RANDHIR KHARE

Randhir Khare is a national and international award-winning poet, writer, artist and folklorist. He has thirty-nine books to his credit, performed his poetry in twelve concerts, exhibited his art in seven solo shows and has inspired the work of photographers, artists and actors, and has collaborated with A.R Rahman who has set his poems to music. He is the recipient of the Sanskriti Award for Creative Writing, the Sahitya Akademi’s Residency Award, The Palash Award for Lifetime Achievement in Education and Culture, The Pegasus Gold Medal for Poetry awarded by the Union of Bulgarian Writers and a host of other prizes. As director of The Rewachand Bhojwani Academy in Pune, he has introduced a number of arts and literature programmes including the Library Alive project.