Baran Farooqi

​Baran Farooqi is a professor of English at Jamia Millia Islamia University. She is the acclaimed translator of The Colours of My Heart, a selection of poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz. Baran Farooqi was awarded the JCB Prize for Literature (2022) for The Paradise of Food, her English translation of Khalid Jawed’s book Ne’mat Khana.

Her book:
The Paradise of Food