Lecture by Prof. Radha Chakravarty

Prof. Radha Chakravarty is a well-known Indian scholar, author and writer who teaches English Literature at Gargi College, University of Delhi. She co-edited the largest anthology of Rabindranath Tagore's works available in English, published by Harvard University Press to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Gurudev Tagore. She is the visiting Indian Scholar to deliver lectures on literature in the Universities of Colombo and Peradeniya. Prof. Chakaravarty will be delivering her lecture on Representations of the body in stories by South Asian Women at 4 pm on June 13,at the seminar room of Faculty of Arts at University of Peradeniya.

Prof.Chakravarty has translated several of Tagore's works, including Gora, Boyhood Days, Chokher Bali, Farewell Song: Shesher Kabita and The Land of Cards: Stories , poems and plays for children. Other works in translation include Bankimchandra Chatterjee's Kapalkundala , In the Name of the Mother by Mahasweta Devi and Crossings: Stories from Bangladesh and India . She has edited Bodymaps: Stories by South Asian Women and co-edited Writing Feminism: South Asian Voices and Writing Freedom: South Asian Voices. She is also the author of Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers (2008) and Tagore and the Modern Novel (Routledge, forthcoming in 2011). Her essays and review articles have appeared in a number of books and periodicals worldwide.

For further details please contact the Indian Cultural Centre on telephone no: 2684698 and Email: [email protected] or Centre for Contemporary Indian Studies, University of Colombo (CCIS) on telephone no: 2591610 and Email: [email protected]