He is a Reader in the Department of English, Punjab University, Chandigarh. He was at Norwich on a translation project as part of the Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship to work on short stories of UK- based Punjabi writers. Teaching for over 18 years, his main areas of interest are drama, pedagogy and translation, and he has translated extensively from Punjabi into English. He has two published novels, one collection of poems and one on short stories under preparation. He has also translated Gurdial Singh’s The Survivors which was nominated for the Hutch Crossword award 2005.