Tony Xavier, is a writer and the Chief Learning Officer of one of India’s oldest test-prep firms. His test-prep book, Bell the CAT, was published by Penguin Random House India in 2024. His poems have been published in the online journal Hakara. His translation of E. Santosh Kumar’s short story Pavakalude Veedu (House of Dolls) was published in The Bombay Literary Magazine. He is currently in the process of translating E. Santosh Kumar’s latest novel, Tapomoyude Achan, for Simon & Schuster. His secret passion is to translate iconic ghazals into English while maintaining fidelity to the refrain and the rhyme scheme that gives the form an intoxication of its own.