Malashri Lal

Malashri Lal has been professor in the English Department, and former Dean, University of Delhi. She has published seventeen books, including The Law of the Threshold: Women Writers in Indian English, Tagore and the Feminine, Chamba-Achamba: Women’s Oral Narratives. She has coedited three books with Namita Gokhale, In Search of Sita: Revisiting Mythology, Finding Radha: The Quest for Love, and Betrayed by Hope: A Play on the Life of Michael Madhusudan Dutt which received the Kalinga Fiction Award. Lal’s latest book is Mandalas of Time: Poems (2023). She has received research and writing fellowships at Harvard University, Bellagio, and Newcastle. She is currently Convener, English Advisory Board of the Sahitya Akademi. Among other recognitions, Malashri Lal has received the Maharani Gayatri Devi Award for Women’s Excellence.