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Mustansir Dalvi
Mustansir Dalvi was born in Bombay. He teaches architecture in Mumbai.

His poem 'Peabody' was awarded 1st Place in the December 2002 Inter Board Poetry Competition (IBPC).

'Choosing Trains' was awarded First Prize in the Indian national daily Asian Age's Poetry Contest in 2001.

He has been Associate Editor at the online poetry workshop Desert Moon Review and the editor of their bi-annual e-zine The Crescent Moon Journal.

Mustansir Dalvi's poems are published in the e-zines Bakery of the Poets, Can We Have Our Ball Back, The Crescent Moon Journal, MiPo Best of Head Quarters 2003, MiPo Digital magazine, Octavo: Poetry Quarterly of the Alsop Review, Pierian Springs, PK Poetry List- Anthology, Poetic Inspirations, Poets Against the War, Slow Trains, Snakeskin, Worm, and the Writer's Hood.

His poems have appeared in print in The Brown Critique, Poetry India: voices of silence, Poiesis: A Journal of the Poetry Circle Bombay, Poetry India: emerging voices, Time Out Mumbai and International Gallerie.

His poems are included in the anthologies: These My Words: The Penguin Book of Indian Poetry (Eunice de Souza and Melanie Silgardo, editors), Mind Mutations (Sirrus Poe, editor), The Bigbridge Online Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry (Menka Shivdasani, editor), The Dance of the Peacock: An Anthology of English Poetry from India (Vivekanand Jha, editor) and To Catch a Poem: An Anthology of Poetry for Young People (Jane Bhandari and Anju Makhija, editors), Sahitya Akademi, Delhi.

His translations are published in the anthology 'Eating God: a Book of Bhakti Poetry' (Arundhati Subramanium, editor)

His translations from the Marathi and the Urdu are published in Poetry at Sangam, The Caravan magazine, The Dhauli Review.

Mustansir Dalvi's 2012 English translation of Muhammad Iqbal’s influential Shikwa and Jawaab-e-Shikwa from the Urdu as ‘Taking Issue and Allah’s Answer’ (Penguin Classics) has been described as ‘insolent and heretical’ and makes Iqbal’s verse accessible to the modern reader.

'Brouhahas of Cocks' is his first book of poems in English published by Poetrywala in 2013.

His most recent book is 'struggles with imagined gods'- selected translations of the poems of Hemant Divate from the Marathi, published by Poetrywala in 2014.

Mustansir Dalvi is Professor of architecture at the Sir JJ College of Architecture, Mumbai. He is Chairperson Board of Studies in Architecture at the University of Mumbai.

His research is published in 'New Architecture and Urbanism: Development of Indian Traditions' (INTBAU),

'Buildings that shaped Bombay: the Architecture of G. B. Mhatre'(UDRI),

'Quiet Conversations: the architecture of Kamu Iyer'(MPC/NCPA),

'Mulk Raj Anand: Shaping the Indian Modern' (Marg),

and is the author of

‘The Romance of Red Stone: An Appreciation of Ornament on Islamic Architecture in India’ (Super Book House).

He has also been published in the Journal of the Indian Institute of Architects, the Journal of the Indian Society for Technical Education, the Journal of Italian Design, Architecture+Design, Architecture: time, space and people, Indian Architect & Builder, Art India, Domus, Domus India, Marg, the Economic & Political Weekly, the Indian Quarterly, Take on Art, National Geographic Traveler, Time Out Mumbai, the Mumbai Reader, and Spade.

Mustansir Dalvi has written columns on urban issues in Time Out Mumbai, FirtPost.com and scroll.in, where he observes and critiques the unraveling urban fabric of Mumbai in its present post-planning avatar.

Some of his papers can be accessed at http://mu.academia.edu/MustansirDalvi