Poonam Saxena is a journalist, writer and translator. She has had a distinguished career with The Hindustan Times, where she launched and edited the HT Sunday magazine, Brunch, for over ten years, before moving on to edit the weekend section. She has written extensively on popular culture, film, television, books and literature. She continues to do a regular column for Hindustan Times which looks at our past through the prism of Hindi literature and Hindi cinema. She translates from Hindi to English and her translations include Dharmvir Bharati's Gunahon ka Devta (Chander & Sudha, Penguin Viking), Rahi Masoom Raza's Scene : 75 (HarperCollins) and The Greatest Hindi Stories Ever Told (Aleph). She was also the co-author for filmmaker Karan Johar's memoir, An Unsuitable Boy (Penguin).