Wagish Shukla teaches mathematics at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He is a student of the Indian Classical Mind as revealed through Sanskrit, Persian and Hindi literature. He has published more than fifty articles in English and Hindi on these subjects. He is closely associated with the Special Centre for Sanskrit Studies at JNU as a member of several committees and is Associate Chief Editor of the Encyclopaedia of Indian Poetics, an ongoing project of the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi.