Varavara Rao

Meena Kandasamy is an anti-caste activist, poet, novelist and translator. She has written books of poems such as Touch (2006) and Ms. Militancy (2010), as well as three novels, The Gypsy Goddess (2014), When I Hit You (2017), and Exquisite Cadavers (2019). Her novels have been shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the Jhalak Prize and the Hindu Lit Prize VARAVARA RAO has been a poet, literary critic, public speaker and teacher of language and literature. He is the author of seventeen collections of poetry and nineteen books of prose (including seven books of literary criticism and translation), all in Telugu. The collection of his prison letters, Captive Imagination (2010), was published by Penguin. N. VENUGOPAL is a poet, literary critic, journalist, public speaker and translator with thirty-two books, both in Telugu and English and as many in translation, to his credit. After being in mainstream journalism for more than twenty years, he started his own alternative small magazine, Veekshanam, a monthly journal of political economy and society, which has been published for the last twenty years.