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{{short description|Indian blogger and writer}}
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| caption       = Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan, Times Lit Fest, 2019
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| birth_place   = [[Kerala]], India
| father        = [[N. S. Madhavan]]
| mother        = Sheela Reddy
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'''Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan''' is an Indian [[blog]]ger and writer who writes under the [[pseudonym]] eM on ''The Compulsive Confessor''. Her first book, a semi-autobiographical book is ''You Are Here'', was published by [[Penguin Books|Penguin]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Dhillon|first1=Amrit|title=Blogger enraptures and enrages India|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1565404/Blogger-enraptures-and-enrages-India.html|accessdate=24 March 2017|publisher=The Telegraph|date=7 October 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Giridhardas|first1=Anand|title=A feminist revolution in India skips the liberation|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/world/asia/25iht-letter.1.16472456.html?pagewanted=all|accessdate=24 March 2017|work=The New York Times|date=25 September 2008}}</ref>

She is the daughter of the [[Malayalam]] writer and former [[Indian Administrative Service]] officer [[N. S. Madhavan]]. Her mother Sheela Reddy is a journalist, a former editor of Indian magazine [[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook]] and author of ''Mr. and Mrs. Jinnah: The Marriage''.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Aneez|first1=Zenab|title=Confessions of a compulsive blogger|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/confessions-of-a-compulsive-blogger/article4734499.ece|accessdate=24 March 2017|work=The Hindu|date=21 May 2013}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
* The One Who Swam with the Fishes (2017)
* Before, And Then After (2015)
* Split (2015)
* Cold Feet (2012)
* The Life & Times of Layla The Ordinary (2010)
* You are Here (2008)

==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://www.compulsiveconfessions.com/ The Compulsive Confessor]
*[https://penguin.co.in/book_author/madhavan-meenakshi-reddy/ Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan] at [[Penguin India]]

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