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Prof. 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).
Malashri Lal was a member of the Jnanpith Advisory Committee for English, and currently, she is a Member of the English Advisory Board of the Sahitya Akademi. She is also Vice President and Executive committee member of the Guild of Service, a national developmental NGO holding a consultative status with ECOSOC of the United Nations. She assists women’s empowerment through educational programmes in Rajasthan. Among other recognitions, Malashri Lal recently received the Maharani Gayatri Devi Award for Women’s Excellence, 2022.
Presented by Dr. Gautam Choubey, ‘Likhawat’ is a show about the books of Bharat – published in different parts of the country, yet rooted in the singularity of Indian ethos. Each episode of Likhawat will take up a book of national resonance and will feature a special guest who is privy to the intimate story of the book as it was imagined, written, published and read.
Anchor: Dr. Gautam Choubey, Academic, Author, Translator
Guest: Prof. Malashri Lal
Produced By: Evelyn Moi Hangzo
Video Editor: Bikash
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