Kumar has been on the jury for many literary awards. She held an exhibition of her paintings at AIFACS, New Delhi. Sukrita Paul Kumar has received numerous awards and grants. Among them, most recently, she was awarded the Tagore Fellowship by the Ministry of Culture for a book project on Cultural Diversity in India, in May 2012. In 2009 and 2010, she was awarded two the Grants by International Council of Canadian Studies for projects on managing diversity. In 2010, she was awarded the Grant by Sahitya Akademi for a project on narrating women's lives in Chamba and Bharmou . She was awarded the Visitorship at Concordia University for the designing of a course on Indian Women and their Lives in 2009. In November 2002, Dr. Kumar set up a winter shelter for the homeless in an old, vacant school building and managed it for six months helping 300 homeless men and children. Literacy camps, counselling sessions and awareness workshops on sanitation, hygiene, gender etc. organized for the homeless along with a daily meeting to discuss their problems. She set up workshops to mobilize college students to participate in the above-mentioned venture to evolve an understanding of the problems of the homeless in Delhi. This was also organized to dispel the common perception that the homeless are criminals and delinquent. She set up a programme for fund raising to provide the homeless, especially the old, with blankets and shoes. She has also conducted workshops through women's studies programmes at the University of Delhi in slum areas and schools on gender sensitization. IIAS, Shimla, 2002. (Collection of Essays)  (Urdu stories from India and Pakistan translated into English. The same collection of stories in the original Urdu was published as "Bazdeed" by Katha, New Delhi, 1998  Modern Hindi and Urdu short stories (Translated into English)  (Translation of Urdu stories into English.)  (A novel translated by Sunil Trivedi and Sukrita Paul Kumar.)