Huzaifa Pandit teaches English Literature at an Undergraduate college in Kashmir. For his PhD he worked on establishing a comparison between Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Agha Shahid Ali and Mahmoud Darwish under the rubric of ‘Poetics of Resistance’ at University of Kashmir. He has contributed papers on a wide range of themes centered around Kashmir like Translation and Dissent, Masculinity and Student Activism in journals and edited volumes like Himalya, Postcolonial Literature, Routledge Handbook of Critical Kashmir Studies, and Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures. He also writes poetry in English and translates poetry from Urdu and Kashmiri into English. Some of his works have found home in magazines like PaperCuts, Jaggery Lit, Outlook and Poetry at Sangam. His book of poems – Green is the Colour of Memory appeared in 2018 from Hawakal Prosthana, Kolkata.
