Perumal Murugan is a prominent author of Tamil literature. An award-winning writer, poet and scholar, he has garnered both critical acclaim and commercial success for his vast array of work. Some of his novels have been translated into English to immense acclaim, including Seasons of the Palm, which was shortlisted for the Kiriyama Prize in 2005, and One Part Woman, his best-known work, which was shortlisted for the Crossword Award and won the prestigious ILF Samanvay Bhasha Samman in 2015.
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Chandrava Charkravarty is Professor, Department of English, West Bengal State University; her interests are the complex connections between gender construction, identity and nation-building in various
Rohini Hensman is a writer and independent scholar based in Bombay. She has published extensively on issues of workers' rights, women's rights and the rights of minorities, and is the coauthor of B
Natasha Badhwar is an independent filmmaker, author, columnist and media trainer based in New Delhi India. A post graduate in Mass Communications in MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia University, Natasha s
