BIO

WRITING AWARDS/ ACHIEVEMENTS

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• Devi Award for Excellence in Writing, New Indian Express, 2024

• One of the "The Next 100 Young Achievers who symbolize India Tomorrow," India Today’s 2021 list which included Tapsee Pannu and Aditya Thackeray. 

• Neev Book Prize, 2020

• Winner of the Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitivity, 2014

• FIND Foundation Artist in Residence and Grantee, 2014/2015, Zagorolo, Ital

• British Council Charles Wallace Writing Fellowship Awardee, Visiting Fellow at the University of Kent, 2015

• New York Times Bestseller, 2011

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SPEAKER

• American School of Bombay, 2014

• SOAS, School of Oriental and African Studies, London 2015

• University of Kent, Canterbury, 2015

• King's College London, 2015

• University of Melbourne, Australia, 2015

• Brisbane Literature Festival, 2015

• Melbourne Writers Festival, 2015

• Yale -- NUS College (a liberal arts college set up as a collaboration between Yale University and the National University of Singapore), Singapore, 2016  

• Jaipur Literature Festival, Jaipur, 2017

• India Today Women's Summit,  Delhi, 2017

• University of Chicago Program in India, 2019

• New International School of Thailand, Thailand, 2019

• IIT Kanpur, 2020

• India Inclusion Summit, Bangalore 2022