Nayantara Sahgal

Nayantara Sahgal is an award-winning writer of nine novels and eight non-fiction works. She is associated with the founding of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Sahgal has held fellowships at many prestigious institutes in the US and is the recipient of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (1987), the Sahitya Akademi Award (1986), which she returned in 2015, and the Sinclair Prize (1985).