Professor Indra Nath Choudhuri has been in academics, administration and cultural diplomacy. He has
taught in Delhi University, Uchha Sikshaaur Sodh Sansthan, DBHP, Hyderabad and been a
visiting professor in Hyderabad Central University; CIEFL, Hyderabad; Jadavpur
University, Kolkata; JNU, Delhi and the University of Bucharest. A
distinguished cultural administrator of India, he was Secretary, Sahitya Akademi, and was associated with the
Ministry of Culture, the Indian High Commission, London and The Nehru Centre,
London. Was Member Secretary and Academic Director, Indira Gandhi National
Centre for the Arts, New Delhi. A Fellow of Temenos Akademi, UK and Millennium
Trust, Kent, UK, his publications include The Genesis of Imagination: Selected
Essays on Literature; Theory, Religion and Culture and other books and research papers on
literature, poetics, religion, aesthetics and translation studies. His awards
include the Kendriya Hindi Sansthan, Ministry of HRD Ganga Sharan Singh Award
from the President of India in 2007 and the Delhi Hindi Academy Award 2009.
