V. Geetha

V. Geetha
Born Tamil Nadu, India
Nationality Indian
Occupation Writer in Tamil and in English on history, culture and gender.

V. Geetha is an Indian feminist activist who is a writer in social history.[1] She operates from Madras (now known as Chennai) and has carried out research on the nature and proliferation of NGOs operating in Tamil Nadu. She has set up the federation of women's groups in the state who hold meetings frequently.[2] Based on her research work she has observed that "Violence as an experience seemed to me to represent a point of intersection of trajectories of hurt, touch, love, fear, hunger and shame. It seemed to inhere as much in the grime of every day life, in habitual tone, gesture and touch, as it did in the particular and determined act of violence."[3]

Biography

V. Geetha is a feminist activist from Chennai, Tamil Nadu. After her studies, she started writing both in Tamil and English on social history. She has pursued political activism. She had worked as professor and director, Research Centre for Women's Studies, at the SNDT Women's University, Mumbai. She is now engaged in writing, teaching and research on subjects related to women [2][4] Some of her notable publications are: Translation of two novels of Perumal Murugan in Tamil into English;[5] Towards a Non-Brahmin Millenniu co-authored with S.V. Rajadurai; Religious Faith, Ideology, Citizenship: The View from Below co-authored with Nalini Rajan Kita in which several essays deal with varied topics of history and thoughts starting from the Gandhian era of civil disobedience during the British Raj, on freedom movement which involved suppression of freedom and resulted in humiliation of people, and on the Islamic dogmas of universal brotherhood. She has discussed issues of secularism as it has evolved in the 21st century in many parts of South East Asian region and when communal issues have dominated in India;[6] and the book titled Fingerprint in which she has noted that fingerprinting has been opposed by people on the grounds that it violates fundamental rights of people as it tends to "foreclose their identities".[7]

References

  1. ↑ "The silencing of Murugan". Indian Express. 20 January 2015. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  2. 1 2 Eldrid Mageli (14 January 2014). Organising Women's Protest: A Study of Political Styles in Two South Indian Activist Groups. Routledge. pp. 16–. ISBN 978-1-136-79169-7.
  3. ↑ Deepti Priya Mehrotra (23 May 2003). Home Truths: Stories of Single Mothers. Penguin Books Limited. pp. 238–. ISBN 978-93-85890-37-6.
  4. ↑ "Gender (Theorizing Feminism)". Amazon.com. 1 March 2002. Retrieved 22 March 2018. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  5. ↑ Priyam, Manisha; Menon, Krishna; Banerjee, Madhulika. Human Rights, Gender and the Environment. pp. 117–. ISBN 978-81-317-4316-4.
  6. ↑ Va Kītā; V. Geetha; Nalini Rajan (2011). Religious Faith, Ideology, Citizenship: The View from Below. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-67785-1.
  7. ↑ V.. Geetha (2009). Fingerprint. Tara. ISBN 978-81-906756-2-8.
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