Manu Mangattu is an Assistant Professor in English hailing from Kerala, India. Born on 21st of December 1985, he imbibed his penchant for poetry and flair for writing from his parents. He completed his post-graduation in English Language and Literature from Mahatma Gandhi University Kottayam securing second rank and a career as a litterateur. Soon he joined the Department of English, St George’s College where he has been imparting lessons in English literature ever since. His areas of interest include Western and Eastern aesthetics, celebrity studies, diaspora literature and musicology. His latest publications are articles on inclusive education, gendering of genius, Shakespeare’s ‘bastards’, phenomenology and eco-aesthetics. His latest published work is Pain Pleasure and Paradox in Poetry: A Verse Compendium [ISBN: 9781310246531] brought out by Smashwords Inc, USA. Besides translations into English from Chinese and Sanskrit, he writes poetry both in English and Malayalam. His active involvement in Chinese poetry translations fetched him the sobriquet "Comrade to Poetry China" in 2016. A ‘brooding romanticist in poetry, a doubtful debutant in fiction and a morbid classicist in criticism’ Manu Mangattu is on the editorial board of Spring Magazine, an online journal customised for literature students [ISSN Online: 2455-4715] and has served as the chief editor of an anthology of research articles [ISBN: 978-93-85105-32-6]. He manages a website www.mutemelodist.com that caters to the creative aspirations of budding writers. He can be contacted at manumangattu@gmail.com, +91-9496322323.