Ruth Vanita is the author of many books, most recently the novel A Slight Angle, and Shakespeare’s Re-Visions of History: Social Collusion, Violence, and Resistance in Nine Plays. She has published two collections of poems, and another novel, Memory of Light, which she translated into Hindi as Pariyon ke Beech.
Her other books include The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics: Debates on Gender, Varna and Species; Love’s Rite: Same-Sex Marriages in Modern India; Dancing with the Nation: Courtesans in Bombay Cinema; and Gender, Sex and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry 1780-1870.
She has translated several works from Hindi to English, including Mahadevi Varma’s My Family and Ugra’s 1924 stories on male-male desire, entitled Chocolate.
She co-edited the path-breaking Same-Sex Love in India, and edited and translated On the Edge: A Hundred Years of Hindi Fiction on Same-Sex Desire, which won the Laadli Award for Gender Sensitivity in English translation.
Educated entirely in India, she taught for many years at Delhi University and the University of Montana. She was founding co-editor of Manushi, India’s first nationwide feminist magazine, and volunteered there for 13 years.
Her book:
Rags Investigates (forthcoming)