Malashri Lal

Malashri Lal, Professor of English at the University of Delhi, retired from her positions as the Dean of Colleges, Dean Academic Activities & Projects at the same university. Malashri Lal’s specialization is in Literature, Women and Gender Studies about which she has 25 books including The Law of the Threshold: Women Writers in Indian English, Tagore and the Feminine: A Journey in Translation, Chamba-Achamba: Women’s Oral Narratives, and the ‘Goddess Trilogy’ coedited with Namita Gokhale, with significant books on Sita, Radha, and Lakshmi. Malashri’s creative writing, Betrayed by Hope: A Play on the Life of Michael Madhusudan Dutt (co-author Namita Gokhale) won the Kalinga Fiction Award 2021. Her books of poems are Mandalas of Time and Signing in the Air. Recent works include Whispering Mountains: Marvellous Folklore from the Himalayas (co-editor Namita Gokhale. Penguin 2005).Malashri Lal has served as a member of international and national book award juries such as the Commonwealth Writers Prize, London, the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, The Hindu Literary Prize, and the Crossword Book Award. Malashri Lal has been a Senior Consultant to the Ministry of Culture. She serves on the advisory committees of several universities and prestigious journals including The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (UK) and Gitanjali and Beyond (Edinburgh). Among other recognitions, Malashri Lal received the Maharani Gayatri Devi Award for Women’s Excellence and The SETU Bilingual Award of Excellence.