Rukmini Bhaya Nair has been called 'the first significant post-modern poet in Indian English'. She was selected ‘Face of the Millennium' in a national survey of writers in 2000 and has won the all India Poetry Society/British Council Prize. Rukmini's Yellow Hibiscus reveals the grandeur of her verse. The author of several academic books and three volumes of poetry, her latest awards include a major grant from the Department of Science and Technology to conduct basic research on ‘Language, Emotion and Culture’.