Prof. Mustansir Dalvi, PhD

He is Professor (Metropolitan Architecture) at the Sir JJ School of Art, Architecture and Design, a trustee of Art Deco Mumbai, and on the Board of Governors of the MMR Heritage Conservation Society. He completed his doctoral studies at IIT Bombay, and his undergraduate and postgraduate education at Sir JJ College of Architecture, where he was Professor of Architecture (University of Mumbai) from 2003 until 2024. He was a member of the Academic Council of the University of Mumbai.

He has published three books of poetry in English, and his poems have been translated into French, Croatian, Marathi, Hindi and Gujarati. He translates from Urdu and Marathi into English and from English into Marathi; his writing on Muhammad Iqbal and Faiz Ahmed Faiz is widely quoted and has been the subject of academic research. His essays and columns appear in the National Herald, The Hindu, The Wire and Scroll, where he casts a critical eye on Mumbai in its post-planning avatar.