![]() ![]() Kunal: Your contribution to literature has been enormously variegated and profoundly influential. We are truly honoured to have you ma’am, and extend a very warm welcome. However, there is ceaseless encouragement to be drawn from looking upon her work in all walks of life. A devout academician throughout her career, she now teaches English Literature and World Cultures at the University of Montana. ![]() She had co-founded “Manushi: A Journal about Women and Society” in 1978 to give a voice to particularly these issues in the public domain. ![]() Vanita has extensively researched and actively advocated for the rights and representation of the LGBT+ community as well as various feminist movements. Some of the distinguished titles accredited to her name are the novel Memory of Light (2020), and non-fiction works, Gender, Sex and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India 1780-1870 (2012), Love’s Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India (2005) and more. Having done her graduation and further studies in the literary line, she extended her interest in this vocation through combining philosophy and social revolution with literary forms to produce volumes of poetry, fiction and other various non-fictional tracts. Ruth Vanita is an illustrious and inspirational academic, author and activist who has made vociferous contributions to the field of literature and grassroot activism especially revolving around the theme of gender and sexuality. ![]()
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