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List Of Indian Women Writers
This is a list of women writers who were born in India or whose writings are closely associated with that nation. A *Varsha Adalja (born 1940), Gujarati language, Gujarati novelist, playwright *Smita Agarwal (born 1958), poet, educator *Vinita Agrawal (born 1965), poet, editor *Meena Alexander (1951–2018), poet, memoirist, essayist, novelist, critic, educator *Samina Ali, contemporary Indian-American novelist, feminist, author of ''Madras on Rainy Days'' *Balamani Amma (1909–2004), poet, published many collections of poetry in Malayalam *K. Saraswathi Amma (1919–1975), short story writer, novelist, feminist *Lalithambika Antharjanam (1909–1987), Malayalam short story writer, poet, children's writer, novelist, author of ''Agnisakshi (novel), Agnisakshi'' *Temsula Ao (born 1945), short story writer, poet, educator *Ashitha (writer), Ashitha, since c.1986: Malayalam short story writer, poet B *Jasodhara Bagchi (1937–2015), leading feminist critic, essayist, activist *Sushmi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations average to between 73–55 ka.", "Modern human beings—''Homo sapiens''—originated in Africa. Then, int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bani Basu
Bani Basu (born 11 March 1939 bn, বাণী বসু) is a prolific Bengali Indian author, essayist, critic, poet, translator and professor. Life She received her formal education from the well-known Lady Brabourne College, Scottish Church College and at the University of Calcutta where she received M.A. in English. Career Basu began her career as a novelist with the publication of ''Janmabhoomi Mātribhoomi''. A prolific writer, she started her professional career as an author from 1980, first in “Anandamala”, a juvenile magazine, then in “Desh” and other periodicals of the time. She is known as a novelist, short story writer, essayist, and writings for children and teenagers. Some of her fictions have been made into films & TV Serials. The broad range of her fiction deals with gender, history, mythology, society, psychology, adolescence, music, sexual orientation, the supernatural, and more. Her major works include ''Swet Pātharer Thālā'' (A Plate of Whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neelam Saxena Chandra
Neelam Saxena Chandra (born 27 June 1969) is an Indian poet and author. She has written novels, short stories, children's stories, and poetry in English and Hindi. Biography Chandra has authored four novels, a novella, five collections of short stories, 25 collections of poetry, and 10 books for children. She has received several awards including the ''"Rabindranath Tagore International Award"'' in 2014.Forbes India Celebrity 100 Nominees List for 2014 Forbes India, 12 December 2014 given by Xpress Publications. She was awarded a prize in a poetry contest organized by the |
Urvashi Butalia
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''. Along with Ritu Menon, she co-founded Kali for Women, India's first feminist publishing house, in 1984. In 2003, she founded Zubaan Books, an imprint of Kali for Women. In 2011, Butalia and Menon were jointly awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award, for their work in Literature and Education. Early life and education Butalia was born in Ambala, Haryana, into a progressive and atheist family of Punjabi heritage. She is the third of four children of Subhadra and Joginder Singh Butalia. Her mother ran a counselling centre for women. Butalia has one ldersister, Bela, and two brothers, Pankaj and Rahul. Pankaj Butalia is a left-wing documentary filmmaker best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nirmal Prabha Bordoloi
Nirmal Prabha Bordoloi (1932/1933 – 1 June 2004) was an Indian poet, lyricist and folklorist associated with Assamese literature. She was president of the Asam Sahitya Sabha in 1991 held at Dudhnoi in Goalpara district. She received several awards including Sahitya Akademi Award in 1983 for her poetry book ''Sudirgha Din Aru Ritu'', the President's Award in 1957 for children's literature and the Asam Sahitya Sabha award twice in 1977 and 1989 for her non-fiction books 'Dinar Pisat Din' and 'Debi', respectively. She was conferred the 'Saraswati Sanman' title in 1987. Life and career Bordoloi was married as a child at the age of 11. She wrote over 54 Assamese and English books and numerous songs. Notable among these are ''Kabita: Bon Faringar Rong'', ''Samipesu'', ''Antarang'', ''Asamar Luko Sangonskriti'', ''Siba'', ''Asamar Luko Kabita''. Her first collection of poems was 'Bon Faringar Rang'. Some other collection of poems : ''Dinor Pasot Din'' ''Samipehu'' ''Antarang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suchitra Bhattacharya
Suchitra Bhattacharya (10 January 1950 – 2015) was an Indian novelist, known for works including ''Hemanter Pakhi'', ''Kachher Manush'', ''Aleek Shukh'', ''Icche'' and ''Kacher Dewal''. During her career as a writer, she composed over 20 novels and many short stories. Her novel ''Dahan'' was adapted into the 1997 film '' Dahan'', and her novels ''Iccher Gach'', ''Alik Sukh'' and ''Ramdhanu Rang'' were adapted into films by Shiboprosad Mukherjee, and her novel ''Onnyo Bwasanto'' was adapted into a television film by Aditi Roy. Early life and education Suchitra Bhattacharya was born in 1950 in Bhagalpur, Bihar. She was interested in writing from her childhood. Bhattacharya graduated from the Jogamaya Devi College, an affiliated undergraduate women's college of the historic University of Calcutta, in Kolkata. Career Having taken many odd jobs in her early youth, she finally joined the public service, leaving in 2004 to become a full-time writer. She started writing in the late- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anuradha Bhattacharyya
Anuradha Bhattacharyya (born 6 December 1975) is an Indian writer of poetry and fiction in English. Her novel ''One Word'' was awarded Best Book of the Year 2016 by the Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi. She is Associate Professor of English in Post Graduate Government College, Sector-11, Chandigarh. Life and career Anuradha Bhattacharyya was born to Tapan Kumar Bhattacharyya and Chitra Bhattacharyya on 6 December 1975 in Calcutta, India. Asoke Kumar Bhattacharyya, the Padma awardee of 2017, was her maternal grandfather. Soon after, her family moved to the Roorkee University campus. She received her education from St. Anne’s Senior Secondary School, Roorkee and Banasthali Vidyapeeth, Rajasthan. She joined Jadavpur University, Calcutta for a Master of Arts degree in English Literature in 1996. While at Jadavpur University, P. Lal published her first book of poems in 1998 via Writers Workshop. She was Junior Research Fellow in the Departmentof the Humanities and Social Sciences a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bengali Language
Bengali ( ), generally known by its endonym Bangla (, ), is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language native to the Bengal region of South Asia. It is the official, national, and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh and the second most widely spoken of the 22 scheduled languages of India. With approximately 300 million native speakers and another 37 million as second language speakers, Bengali is the List of languages by number of native speakers, fifth most-spoken native language and the List of languages by total number of speakers, seventh most spoken language by total number of speakers in the world. Bengali is the fifth most spoken Indo-European language. Bengali is the official language, official and national language of Bangladesh, with 98% of Bangladeshis using Bengali as their first language. Within India, Bengali is the official language of the states of West Bengal, Tripura and the Barak Valley region of the state of Assam. It is also a second official lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajlukshmee Debee Bhattacharya
Rajlukshmee Debee Bhattacharya is an Indian poet, translator and literary critic writing in Bengali and English. She won First Prize at the ''All India Poetry Competition'' in 1991 organized by The Poetry Society (India) in collaboration with the British Council. Biography Rajlukshmee Debee Bhattacharya was born in 1927. She taught at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and Fergusson College, Pune. She was also a Professor of Philosophy at Nowrosjee Wadia College. She is the author of ''The Owl and Other Poems'' and ''The Touch Me Not Girl''. Her translation works are unique works of transcreation, and her translations include the songs of Rabindranath Tagore. Rajlukshmee Debee was All India Poetry Prize winner in 1991 for her poem ''Punarnava'' (‘’The Ever Renewing’’). Rajlukshmee was also on the Jury for the first ever All India Poetry Competition for School Children held in 1996. Selected works Books * ‘’The Owl and Other Poems’’, Writers Workshop, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sujata Bhatt
Sujata Bhatt (born 6 May 1956) is an Indian poet. Life and career Sujata Bhatt was born in Ahmedabad, Gujarat and brought up in Pune until 1968, when she immigrated to United States with her family. She has an MFA from the University of Iowa, and for a time was writer-in-residence at the University of Victoria, Canada. She received the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia) and Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize for her first collection ''Brunizem'' in 1987. She received a Cholmondeley Award in 1991 and Italian Tratti Poetry Prize in 2000. She has translated Gujarati poetry into English for the ''Penguin Anthology of Contemporary Indian Women Poets''. Combining Gujarati and English, Bhatt writes "Indian-English rather than Anglo-Indian poetry."Schmidt, Michael: ''Lives of Poets'', p860. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998. Michael Schmidt (poet) observed that her "free verse is fast-moving, urgent with narratives, softly spoken. Bhatt lives in Bremen, Germany Germany,, officially the Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheila Bhatia
Sheila Bhatia (1916-2008) was an Indian poet, playwright, theatre personality and the founder of the ''Delhi Art Theatre'', a forum based in Delhi for the promotion of Indian art forms. She is credited with originating Punjabi opera, an Indian form of dance drama incorporating operatic movements. She was honoured by the Government of India in 1971 with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award. A decade later, she received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for theatre direction in 1982 followed by Kalidas Samman in 1997. Biography Sheila Bhatia was born on 1 March 1916 in Sialkot in British India, in present day Pakistan. After securing a BA degree, she graduated in education (BT) and started working as a teacher of mathematics in Lahore, involving herself with the Indian freedom struggle. Later she moved to Delhi where she founded the ''Delhi Art Theatre''. She also worked with the National School of Drama as the head of the acting department. Bhatia's debut production ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
