Nadeem Khan has been a teacher of English since 1973. He was the founder-director of the Western
Regional Centre of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, an autonomous Institute run by the
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, from 2011 to 2018. He has translated
well over a dozen books – mainly from Marathi into English – including Vishwas Patil’s celebrated
Marathi novel Panipat and Avadhoot Dongare’s Yuva Sahitya Akademi winning novel Swatahala Phaltu
Samajnyaachi Gosht. He is the winner of the Valley of Words award for the best-translated book for
the year 2020