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Uma Parameswaran
Uma Parameswaran (b. 1938) is an Indian people, Indo-Canadian writer, scholar, and literary critic. Her writing includes works of fiction and poetry, as well as plays and nonfiction. She is a retired professor of English at the University of Winnipeg. Early life and education Parameswaran was born in 1938 in Madras, India. She was raised in a Tamils, Tamil home in Jabalpur. She completed her B.A. at Jabalpur University and a masters degree in journalism at Nagpur University. With a Fulbright Program, Fulbright grant, she completed a masters degree in creative writing at Indiana University. In 1972, she completed a doctorate in English at Michigan State University. Career Parameswaran has written fiction, poetry, drama and literary criticism. Her poetry includes the 1973 collection ''Cyclic Hope, Cyclic Pain'', published by the Writers Workshop in Calcutta, the 1988 collection ''Trishanku'', and the 2002 collection ''Sisters at the Well''. She wrote the play ''Sons Must Die'' i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madras
Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal. According to the 2011 Indian census, Chennai is the sixth-most populous city in the country and forms the fourth-most populous urban agglomeration. The Greater Chennai Corporation is the civic body responsible for the city; it is the oldest city corporation of India, established in 1688—the second oldest in the world after London. The city of Chennai is coterminous with Chennai district, which together with the adjoining suburbs constitutes the Chennai Metropolitan Area, the List of urban areas by population, 36th-largest urban area in the world by population and one of the largest metropolitan economies of India. The traditional and de facto gateway of South India, Chennai is among the most-visited Indian cities by f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
