Dr. Baran Farooqi

Dr. Farooqi is a Professor and Co- Coordinator of Outreach Program in Jamia Millia Islamia. Teaching English language to under-graduate and post graduate students, she is equally involved in developing and overseeing Jamia’s community initiatives including income generation programs for women leading to all-women established and successfully run canteen in the University campus catering in short 1000 students.

She is a scholar of Shakespearean drama, gender studies and women’s literature. She also translates extensively from Urdu to English. Her translation of Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s selected poetry titled, The Colours of My Heart was published by Penguin Random House India in 2017.