Ananya Vajpeyi is an Indian academic and writer. She is Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies.[1] She is the author of the award-winning book "Righteous Republic: The Political foundations of Modern India" published by the Harvard University Press. She was born in 1962.
Life and career
Vajpeyi is the daughter of Sahitya Akademi award-winning poet Kailash Vajpeyi.[2] She is married to Basharat Peer, an opinion editor with the New York Times.[3]
Vajpeyi received her MA at the Jawaharlal Nehru University,[4] M.Phil from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar,[5] and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. She has taught at the University of Massachusetts[6] and Columbia University[7]
Works
Her book "Righteous Republic" won the Crossword Award for Non-Fiction (2013), jointly with "From the Ruins of Empire" by Pankaj Mishra.[8] It also won the Thomas J Wilson Memorial Prize from Harvard University Press[9] and the Tata First Book Award for Non-Fiction (2013).[10] It was also featured on the Books of the year 2012 list on The Guardian and The New Republic.[11][12]
She is the co-editor with Ramin Jahanbegloo of Ashis Nandy: A Life in Dissent (OUP, 2018)[13] and with Volker Kaul of Minorities and Populism: Critical Perspectives from South Asia and Europe (Springer, 2020).[14]
She writes regularly for The Hindu newspaper[15] and Scroll.in.[16] She has conceived, commissioned and guest edited several issues of Seminar magazine.[17]
See also
References
- ↑ Ananya Vajpeyi. www.csds.in. Retrieved 2020-06-23.
- ↑ Kailash Vajpeyi: A poet embraces his favourite subject – death, Gulati, Sumegha. The Indian Express. Indian Express Group(2 April 2015). Retrieved August 28, 2016.
- ↑ Opinion | The Young Suicide Bomber Who Brought India and Pakistan to the Brink of War. The New York Times(2019-03-02). Retrieved 2020-06-23.
- ↑ The story of my Sanskrit, Vajpeyi, Ananya. The Hindu. N. Ram(16 August 2014). Retrieved August 28, 2016.
- ↑ List of Scholars. The Rhodes Project. Retrieved 2020-06-23.
- ↑ Peace in His Time. History Faculty Publication Series({Template:Date).
- ↑ People | Ananya Vajpeyi | The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University. heymancenter.org. Retrieved 2020-06-23.
- ↑ Ravi Subramaniam wins his third Crossword Book award in popular category. News18.com. News18.com(9 December 2013). Retrieved August 28, 2016.
- ↑ Gandhiji Overshadowed Ambedkar, Thomas, Pramod. The New Indian Express. The New Indian Express(August 12, 2014). Retrieved August 28, 2016.
- ↑ Author interview: 'Swaraj was a quest for an Indian self,' says Ananya Vajpeyi, Yasir, Sameer. FirstPost. Network 18 media(December 16, 2013). Retrieved August 28, 2016.
- ↑ Books of the year 2012: authors choose their favourites, Guardian, The. The Guardian. Guardian News and Media(23 November 2012). Retrieved August 28, 2016.
- ↑ New Republic Editor and Writer Picks: Best Books of 2012, Staff, The New Republic. The New Republic. Hamilton Fish V(16 December 2012). Retrieved August 28, 2016.
- ↑ Book Review: Ashis Nandy: A Life in Dissent. The Financial Express(2018-05-13). Retrieved 2020-06-23.
- ↑ Minorities and Populism – Critical Perspectives from South Asia and Europe{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Springer International Publishing(2020). ISBN 978-3-030-34097-1
- ↑ Ananya Vajpeyi. The Hindu. Retrieved 2020-06-23.
- ↑ Ananya Vajpeyi | Scroll.in. Ananya Vajpeyi. Retrieved 2020-06-23.
- ↑ Seminar issues guest edited by Ananya Vajpeyi. www.csds.in. Retrieved 2020-06-23.