Tony Xavier is a writer, poet, translator and Chief Learning Officer at IMS Learning Resources. His book Bell the CAT was published by Penguin Random House India in 2024. His poems have appeared in Hakara, while his translation of E. Santosh Kumar’s Pavakalude Veedu (House of Dolls) was published in The Bombay Literary Magazine. He is currently translating E. Santosh Kumar’s novel Tapomoyude Achan for Simon & Schuster. He is also passionate about translating iconic ghazals into English while preserving their refrain and rhyme.