NISHI CHAWLA taught at the University of Delhi for nearly two decades before she left India to settle in the United States. She is now an Adjunct Professor of English at the University of Maryland University College, Maryland. She also teaches courses in Global Literature at the University of Maryland, College Park. She lives with her family in Bethesda, Maryland.

Here is a collection of poems that nishi chawla has written on the theme of war. An you shall see, she has tried to offer several perspectives on various aspects of the war. Her own position is quite non-partisan even as it emerges from her poems in this volume. In addition to writing poetry, nishi chawla has published two novels: The Twist of Truth in 2001 and A Human Silicon Chip in 2003.