EP 25: The Blind Matriarch by Namita Gokhale
Jun 10, 2022 ·
37m 22s
Broadcaster Achala Sharma interviews Namita Gokhale, author of twenty books and winner of Sahitya Akademi Award for 2021, about her latest book ‘The Blind Matriarch’ in this episode of Cine...
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Broadcaster Achala Sharma interviews Namita Gokhale, author of twenty books and winner of Sahitya Akademi Award for 2021, about her latest book ‘The Blind Matriarch’ in this episode of Cine Ink Podcast series ‘Kitaab Kaulum’.
She is also the co-founder and co-director (with William Dalrymple) of the Jaipur Literature Festival.
Published by Penguin Random House-Viking, ’The Blind Matriarch’ examines the Indian joint family against the backdrop of the pandemic. The Hindi translation ‘Aandhari’ by Prabhat Ranjan has been published by Rajkamal Prakashan.
She was given Sahitya Akademi Award for her English novel ‘Things To Leave Behind’ in 2022.
Namita Gokhale’s debut novel, ‘Paro: Dreams of Passion’, was published in 1984. Other recent books include ‘Betrayed By Hope’, a play on the life of the poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt, and ‘Jaipur Journals’, a fictional reading of the Jaipur Literature Festival.
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She is also the co-founder and co-director (with William Dalrymple) of the Jaipur Literature Festival.
Published by Penguin Random House-Viking, ’The Blind Matriarch’ examines the Indian joint family against the backdrop of the pandemic. The Hindi translation ‘Aandhari’ by Prabhat Ranjan has been published by Rajkamal Prakashan.
She was given Sahitya Akademi Award for her English novel ‘Things To Leave Behind’ in 2022.
Namita Gokhale’s debut novel, ‘Paro: Dreams of Passion’, was published in 1984. Other recent books include ‘Betrayed By Hope’, a play on the life of the poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt, and ‘Jaipur Journals’, a fictional reading of the Jaipur Literature Festival.
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