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Nandini Sahu (born 1973), English-language poet, folklorist, academic; Indira Sant (1914–2000), Marathi poet; Krupabai Satthianadhan (1862–1894), early English-language Indian novelist; Mala Sen (1947–2011), writer and human rights activist, author of India's Bandit Queen; Mallika Sengupta (1960–2011), Bengali poet, novelist, feminist ...
In total, Tharu has published six books on these topics. Her most well known work which she edited with K. Lalitha is the two-part anthology titled Women Writing In India, 600 B.C. [10] Her works are most well known for their critical viewpoint on the Indian women's movement and cultural theory. [11]
She later in 1991 joined Asmita Resource Centre for Women, a Telangana-based NGO which addresses women's issues, as its President and presently serving as the Chairman of the organization. She is also the member of the publication, Vamtinti Masi (Soot from the Kitchen), an editorial of Asimita Organization, which is an active member of Telugu ...
She first learned to read and write in English at school at the age of seven. As a result, English became her "literary language". She published her first story at the age of nine. [7] She attended Queen Mary's Higher Secondary School in Delhi and received her B.A. in English literature in 1957 from the Miranda House at the University of Delhi.
Rita Chowdhury (born 1960) is an Indian poet and novelist who writes Assamese literature and is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award.She is the editor of the Assamese literary magazine Gariyoshi and a former director of the National Book Trust, India. [1]
Urvashi Butalia (born 1952) is an Indian feminist writer, publisher and activist. She is known for her work in the women's movement of India, as well as for authoring books such as The Other Side of Silence: Voices from and the Partition of India and Speaking Peace: Women's Voices from Kashmir.
They focus on the experiences of middle-class women in both India and abroad. There is however one exception in Muniyakka which deals with the lower classes. [ 4 ] In her novel Going Home , also translated from the original Tamil, Kannan tells the nostalgic story of a housewife in Delhi who yearns for her affluent past.
Women writers (poets, novelists, screenplay writers, playwrights, journalists etc.) who live or have lived in India, or who are of Indian origin, or both. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Indian writers .