Author Surinder Deol, Poet, novelist, and translator, formerly a program manager and senior specialist with the World Bank, Washington, DC

SURINDER DEOL is a poet, novelist, and translator who served as a program manager and a senior specialist at the World Bank in Washington, DC. Before that, he held a senior managerial position at the Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) and later as a director of the Management Development Institute (MDI) in Gurgaon. His early areas of interest included crosscultural negotiations and leadership development, on which he published books and facilitated several international seminars and symposia. His interest in Ghalib's poetry, a passion from his early years, led him to translate 'Divan-e Ghalib' in free verse, which was published as THE TREASURE: A MODERN RENDITION OF GHALIB'S LYRICAL LOVE POETRY in 2014. A new revised and expanded edition of the book appeared in 2018. He has also authored a novel titled ENDLESS LIFE (2012) and a collection of poems A MOMENT IN THE UNIVERSE (2006). More recently, he translated Gopi Chand Narang's classic study of Ghalib's poetics into English and it has been

published as GHALIB: INNOVATIVE MEANINGS AND THE INGENIOUS MIND by Oxford University Press India in 2017. He lives in Potomac, USA, with his wife Daler Aashna Deol.

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