Meenakshi Mukherjee
Meenakshi Mukherjee (died 16 September 2009, aged 72) was a litterateur and
Sahitya Akademi Award winner. Her book, "An Indian for all seasons", a biography of historian
R.C. Dutt, published by Penguin, was to be released in
Delhi. Mukherjee received the
Sahitya Akademi award in 2003 for her book ''
The Perishable Empire: Essays on Indian Writing in English''. She taught
English literature and Critical theory at several colleges in
Patna,
Pune,
Delhi and
University of Hyderabad. Her last and longest spell was as Professor of English in the
Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi. She was a visiting professor in several universities outside India, including the
University of Texas at
Austin, the
University of Chicago, the
University of California at
Berkeley,
Macquarie University (
Sydney), the
University of Canberra and
Flinders University (
Adelaide). Her husband
Sujit Mukherjee, was a teacher and a literary scholar. They had two daughters. They lived the final years of their lives in
Hyderabad.
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