Kumar’s writings have appeared in The Nation, Harper's, New Statesman, Transition, American Prospect, Toronto Review, Colorlines, Biblio, Outlook, Frontline, India Today, The Hindu, Himal, Herald, The Friday Times, The Times of India, and other publications. He has also been a literary columnist at Tehelka.com.
Kumar is the author of Passport Photos (University of California Press and Penguin-India, 2000) and Bombay-London-New York (Routledge and Penguin-India, forthcoming in 2002). Passport Photos was the winner of an “Outstanding Book of the Year” Award from the Myers Program for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America. Kumar is also the scriptwriter and narrator of the prize-winning documentary, Pure Chutney (1997).
He has been awarded a Barach Fellowship at the Wesleyan Writers Festival and a SAJA prize in 2001 for op-ed writing. He has won fellowships from the NEH, Yale University, SUNY-Stony Brook, Dartmouth College, and University of California-Riverside. Kumar is a professor in the English department at Penn State University. He and his wife live in State College, only a few blocks away from three equally bad Indian restaurants.
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