V. Geetha

Geetha is a feminist activist, writer and historian from Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She studied at Madras Christian College and University of Iowa, USA. After completing her studies in 1988, she was active in the women’s movement for over two decades, even as she worked at giving extra-mural lectures to women workers, activists and students.

She has been consistently engaged in writing and translation work and has been actively contributing to various magazines and news portals. Some of her notable publications are: Translation of two novels of Perumal Murugan in Tamil into English. She has set up the federation of women’s groups in the state and is also the editorial director at Tara Books.

Notable works: Undoing Impunity- Speech after sexual violence, Gender (Theorizing Feminism) and Towards a non-Brahmin Millennium.

Link to  V. Geetha’s interview publlished on Feb 8, 2017: https://medium.com/@Kamalan/kamalan-conversations-v-geetha-editorial-director-tara-books-7903b282e572