V. Geetha

V. Geetha is a writer, translator, and feminist historian who writes in English and Tamil on gender, caste labor, and education. Her major publications include Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and the Question of Socialism in India (2021), Undoing Impunity: Speech after Sexual Violence, Gender, Patriarchy (2016), and Towards a Non-Brahmin Millennium: From Iyothee Thass to Periyar (1998; coauthored with S. V. Rajadurai). She has also translated, from Tamil to English, two novels by author Perumal Murugan and trans activist A. Revathi’s autobiography, The Truth about Me: A Hijra Life. Currently, she is the editorial director of Tara Books, Chennai.