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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, interm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |