Ruth Vanita

Ruth Vanita has authored several books, most recently The Broken Rainbow: Poems and Translations (2023); two novels, Memory of Light and A Slight Angle (2022; 2024); The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics: Debates on Gender, Varna and Species (2022); Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriages in Modern India (2005; revd. edn. 2022), and over eighty scholarly articles. She has translated several works from Hindi to English, including Mahadevi Varma's My Family (2021) and Memory of Light as Pariyon ke...See more

Ruth Vanita has authored several books, most recently The Broken Rainbow: Poems and Translations (2023); two novels, Memory of Light and A Slight Angle (2022; 2024); The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics: Debates on Gender, Varna and Species (2022); Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriages in Modern India (2005; revd. edn. 2022), and over eighty scholarly articles. She has translated several works from Hindi to English, including Mahadevi Varma's My Family (2021) and Memory of Light as Pariyon ke Beech. 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 (2023). See less