Nyla Ali Khan is a professor who has written extensively about the political issues and strife in Jammu and Kashmir. Some of her works examine the fiction of nationality in an era of transnationalism and the relationship between Islam, women, and violence in Kashmir. She has also organized conferences on postcolonialism and South Asian diasporas.

1. WRITERS
OF
TAMIL NADU
AND
JAMMU KASHMIR
BY:
P.Rohithprabu - X

2. Student Info:
1. Rohithprabu:
• Personal Life:
Born on 19 November 2005. I am student in Kshatriya
Vidhyasala Centenary School. Studying 10th Standard.
• My Works:
In my life I have written many stories and poems. I wrote
many Haikus in my life which I have learnt from my Language Teacher. I
wrote many Poems In both Tamil and English. And the poem which I
presented here is which I love the most.

3. பி.ரரோஹித்பிரபு
கார்மேகத்திற்கு
கதிரவன் அழகு
ோலை முடிந்தால்
ேதி அழகு
நடுநிசிக்கு
நட்சத்திரங்கள் அழகு
தாய்க்கு
தனயன் அழகு
சசழுலேயிலும் எளிலே
சசல்வந்தனுக்கு அழகு
ஏழ்லேயிலும் மநர்லே
ஏலழக்கு அழகு
ேண்ணுக்கு
ேரம் அழகு
ேைர்களுக்கு
ேகரந்தம் அழகு
பதவிக்கு
பணிவு அழகு
கவிஞர்களுக்கு
கவிலத அழகு
ோணவர்களுக்கு
ேரியாலதயுடன் நடத்தல் அழகு

4. Writers of Tamil
Nadu:
1. C.S.Lakshmi,
2. Githa Hariharan,
3. Kamala Laxman,
4. Leela Omchery,
5. Archana Sarat.

5. 1. C.S.Lakshmi:
• Personal Life:
Lakshmi was born in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu in
1944. She grew up in Mumbai and Bangalore. She
obtained her Bachelor of Arts from Madras Christian
College and M.A in Bangalore and her PhD
from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her
dissertation was on American policy towards
refugees fleeing Hungary due to the failed revolution
of 1956. After completing her education, she worked
as a school teacher and college lecturer in Tamil
Nadu. She is married to Vishnu Mathur, a film maker,
and lives in Mumbai.

6. • Her Works:
1. In Tamil:
 Nandimalai Charalilae (1962)
 Andhi Malai ( (1967)
 Sirakukal muriyum(1976)
 Kalachuvadu (1976)
 Veetin mulaiyil oru camaiyalarai (1988)
 Ambai : Kalacchuvadu Nerkanalgal (1998)
 Kaatil Oru Maan (2000)
 Varrum eriyin meengal (2007)

7. 2. In English:
 The Face behind the mask : (1984)
 A Purple Sea (1992)
 Body blows (2000)
 Seven seas & seven mountains [Volume 1] (2000)
 Seven seas & seven mountains [Volume 2] (2003)
 The Unhurried City (2003)
 In A Forest, A Deer: (2006)
 A Meeting on the Andheri Overbridge (2016)

8. • Interesting Information About C.S.Lakshmi:
Lakshmi has been an independent researcher in the field of women's
studies for over thirty years. She uses the pen name Ambai for publishing
Tamil fiction and her real name (as Dr. C. S. Lakshmi) for publishing her
research work and other articles in newspapers like The Hindu and The
Times of India and in journals like Economic and Political Weekly. In 1992,
she was a visiting fellow in the University of Chicago's Institute for Culture
and Consciousness. She was instrumental in the establishment of Roja
Muthiah Research Library (RMRL) by persuading the University to acquire
Roja Muthaiah Chettiar's collection of books and other published material.

9. 2. Githa Hariharan:
• Personal Life:
Githa Hariharan was born in Coimbatore, India,
and she grew up in Bombay and Manila. She was
educated in these two cities and later in the United
States. She got a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) degree
in English Literature and Psychology from Bombay
University in 1974; and a Master of Arts in
Communications from the Graduate School of
Corporate and Political Communication, Fairfield
University, Connecticut, 1977 From 1985 to
2005.She is, at present, a writer based in New
Delhi.

10. • Her Works:
1. As a Author:
The Thousand Faces of Night, Penguin Books 1992,
 Women's Press, 1996,
The Art of Dying, Penguin Books 1993,
The Ghosts of Vasu Master, Viking, Penguin Books India 1994,
Penguin Group 1998,
When Dreams Travel, Picador 1999,
Penguin Group Australia, 2008,
The Winning Team 2004,
 Random House Digital 2004,
Fugitive Histories, Penguin Group, 2009,
Almost Home, Restless Books, 2014,
I Have Become the Tide, Simon and Schuster India, 2019,

11. 2. As a Editor:
A Southern Harvest 1993,
Sorry, Best Friend! 1997,
Battling for India 2019.

12. • Interesting Information About Her:
Hariharan's fiction has been translated into a number of languages
including French, Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Greek, Urdu and
Vietnamese; her essays and fiction have also been included in
anthologies such as Salman Rushdie's Mirrorwork: 50 Years of Indian
Writing 1947-1997. She wrote a monthly column for many years on
different aspects of culture and their political and social underpinnings,
in The Telegraph, Kolkata. She has been Visiting Professor or Writer-in-
Residence in several universities, including Dartmouth College and
George Washington University in the United States, the University of
Canterbury at Kent in the UK, Nanyang Technological University in
Singapore, and in India, Jamia Millia Islamia and Goa University.

13. 3.Kamala Laxman:
• Personal Life:
She was married to cartoonist R. K. Laxman, who
also happened to be her maternal uncle, after his
divorce to his first wife Kamara Kamala. Kamala
was the life president of Mahalakshmi Ladies'
Club founded by her mother in the year 1965
in Mumbai. Born on 1924 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
Died on 14 November 2015 in Pune, Maharashtra.

14. • Her Works:
Recognising her talent, the India Book House commissioned Kamala
to write children's books in the 1970s. Her notable works include The
Thama Stories, Raman of Tenali & Other Stories and Thama and His
Missing Mother. Many of her works were illustrated by her husband
R. K. Laxman. Their stories were serialised and telecasted by the
Indian TV station Doordarshan.

15. 4. Leela Omchery:
• Personal Life:
Leela Omchery was born in 1928 in Mankoyikkal
tharavdu in Thiruvattar in Kanyakumari district in Tamil
Nadu. She started learning music from an early age under
Karnatic music guru, Thiruvattar Arumugham Pillai
Bhagavathar, along with her younger brother,
late Kamukara Purushothaman, a known classical and
playback singer in Malayalam. Hailing from a family of
musicians, she had the opportunity to hone her music
talents under the guidance of her grand mother and
mother who were musicians in their own rights.

16. • Her Works:
1.In English:
2.In Malayalam:
Title Publisher Year
Indian Music and Allied Arts (5
volumes)
Sandeep Prakashan, Delhi 1990
Gleanings in Indian Music Sandeep Prakashan, Delhi 1991
Immortals of Indian Music Gyan Books, Delhi 1998
Title Publisher Year
Abhinaya Sangeetham Bhasha Institute, Kerala 1981
Paadavum Padhavum D.C. Books, Kerala
Keralathile Laasya Rachanakal D.C. Books, Kerala 2003
Chinakkara Koothu Paattukal Mudra Books, Delhi 2008
Leela Omcheriyude Pathangal Poorna Books, Kerala 2009
Karuna Cheyvanenthu Thamsam
Krishna
D.C. Books, Kerala 2011
Vettam Mangiya Kovil Paattukal Poorna Books, Kerala 2012

17. • Interesting information about her:
1.She has got many awards by the Government of India. Some of the
awards are:
Padmashri by Government of India in 2009.
Marunaadan Malayaali Award for Excellence in the field of
Traditional music and Arts, Delhi in 2008.
Fellow – Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi in 1991.
Sangeeta Kulapathi from Kalaadarppanam, Kerala in 2003.
Sangeet Kovida from Gayatri Fine Arts, Delhi in 2003.
Kalaacharya from Akhila Kerala Maaraar Mahaa Sabha, Kerala in
1990.
Sangeeta Sarva Bhouma from Astika Samaj, Delhi in 2006.

18. 5.Archana Sarat:
• Personal Life:
Archana Sarat was born in Thoothukudi , a port city in South
Tamil Nadu. She was raised in Chennai. After being schooled at
Sindhi Model Senior Secondary School at Kellys, she went on to
obtain a bachelor's degree in Commerce from M.O.P. Vaishnav
College at Nungambakkam, Chennai. She also pursued her
Chartered Accountancy Course. Currently, she is a partner in her
family firm, M/S P.T.Ponnaiah &Co, which was established in the
year 1979 offering services in the fields of Audit and Assurance,
Taxation, Business Formation, Business Support, Business
Advisory and other related fields.

19. • Her Works:
Novels
 Birds of Prey
 Tales from the History of Mathematics
Short story collections
 Tit for Tat
Anthologies (co-authored)
 Vengeance (NaNoWriMo India Anthology)
 Jukebox
 Chicken Soup for the Indian Teenage Soul
 Chicken Soup for the Indian Romantic Soul
 Chicken Soup for the Indian Mother's

20. Writers of Jammu
Kashmir:
1. Champa Sharma,
2. Nitasha Kaul,
3. Nyla Ali Khan,
4. Padma Sachdev,
5. Syeda Hammed.

21. 1. Champa sharma:
• Personal life:
Prof. Champa Sharma was born in Daghore, Samba
District of Jammu and Kashmir in a Brahmin family. She
has graduated in B.Ed. in 1962, M.A (Sanskrit) in 1964
and PhD (Sanskrit) in 1975 from University of Jammu.
She has also graduated with M.A in Dogri language
(Shiromani) in 1977. After teaching at a private college
(Republic Academy) and later as an ad-hoc lecturer in
Sanskrit at Government Women's College, Gandhi Nagar
in 1969 in the initial part of her career.

22. • Her Works:
 Dogri Kavya Charcha (1969)
 Ik Jhaank (1976)
 Duggar Dharti (1979)
 Jammu Ke Pramukh Parv-Teohar Aur Mele(1985)
 Saak Sunna Preet Pittal (1996)
 Shodh Prabandh
 Nihaalap (2002)
 Cheten Di Rohl (2004)
 Gadeerna (2007)
 Prof. Ved Kumari Ghai (2011)
 Saanjh Bhyal (2011)
 Soch Sadhana(2013)

23. • Interesting Information about her:
She was awarded the Sahitya Akademi award by Sahitya Akademi, New
Delhi for her original poetry work.
Diwanini Vidyawati Dogra Award, 1992
Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed Memorial Award, 1996
Dogri Sanstha Golden Jubilee Samman, 1995
Jammu and Kashmir Accession Golden Jubilee Award, 1997
NSS Award, 1995
Dogri Sahitya Rattan Award, 2000
Dogra Rattan Award, 2006
Lifetime Achievement Award, Dogri Sanstha, 2012
Lifetime Achievement Award, MIER, Jammu

24. 2.Nitasha Kaul:
• Personal Life:
Kaul grew up in Delhi and had her schooling at St.
Thomas School. She graduated in Economics from Sri
Ram College of Commerce before pursuing her post-
graduate from University of Hull6; Kaul went on to earn
her doctorate in Economics and Philosophy from Hull, in
2003. Her doctoral thesis was Interrogating the Subject-
World of Economic Epistemology: Re-Imagining Theory
and Difference. She Born on 1976 in Jammu Kashmir.

25. • Her Works:
 Imagining Economics Otherwise
 Residue
Interesting Information about her:
Kaul served as a Lecturer of Economics at University of Bath, and as
an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Bristol Business School
from 2002 to 2007 before being roped in as the Associate Professor in
Creative Writing at the Royal Thimphu College in Bhutan (2010).

26. 3. Nyla Ali Khan:
• Personal Life:
Dr. Nyla Ali Khan is a Visiting Professor at Rose State
College,former lecturer at the University of Oklahoma,
and former professor the University of Nebraska-
Kearney. She is the author of fourbooks, including The
Fiction of Nationality in an Era of Transnationalism and
Islam, Women, and Violence in Kashmir:
Between Indian and Pakistan, and several articles that
focus heavilyon the political issues and strife of her
homeland, Jammu and Kashmir, India.

27. • Her Works:
 "The idealist who loved Kashmir History revisited."
 "Place and the Politics of Identity in Desai's In Custody."
 "Faith that Moved Mountains."
 "Understanding Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah."
 "Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah Some memories."
 "Muslim Women and Violent Protest: Kashmir.“
 "Home and Hearth."
 "Anita Desai."
 "Hope for peace: The cost of conflict in South Asia."
 "Kashmir solution can halt S. Asia’s nuclear race."
 "Historical Distortions Galore."
 "Several Captors Hold Kashmir Captive."
 "The Ambiguous Identity of a Kashmiri."

28. • Intersting Information about her:
She co-organized the 2006 South Asian Literary Association Conference on
"Postcolonialism and South Asian Diasporas," which was held in conjunction
with the Modern Language Association Conference in Philadelphia. Over the
years, she has had sixteen conference papers selected for presentation at
major conferences, such as the South Asian Literary Association Conference,
the Modern Language Association Conference, Annual British Commonwealth
and Postcolonial Studies Conference, and the International Global Studies
Conference.

29. 4. Padma Sachdev:
• Personal Life
Padma Sachdev was born in Purmandal, Jammu in 1940. She was
the eldest of three children of a Sanskrit scholar, professor Jai Dev
Badu, who was later killed during the partition of India in 1947. She
first married famous Dogri poet Vedpal Deep and later married
singer Surinder Singh of the musical duo "Singh Bandhu" in
1966. She lives in New Delhi.

30. • Her Works:
Meri Kavita Mere Geet (1969)
Tavi Te Chanhan (1976),
Nheriyan Galiyan (1982),
Pota Pota Nimbal (1987),
Uttar Vahini (1992)
Tainthian (1997).
Amrai
Diwankhana
Chith Chete

31. • Interesting Information about her:
 Dinu Bhai Pant Life Time Achievement Award,2017
 Krutitava Smagra Samman, 2015
 Saraswati Samman , 2015
 Padma Shri Award. 2001
 Sahitya Akademi Award 1971
 Kabir Samman for poetry. 2007-08

32. 5. Syeda Saiyidain Hameed:
• Personal Life:
Syeda Saiyidain Hameed (born 1943) is an Indian social and women's
rights activist, educationist, writer and a former member of
the Planning Commission of India. She chaired the Steering
Committee of the Commission on Health which reviewed the National
Health Policy of 2002, till the dissolution of the body in 2015, to be
replaced by NITI Aayog.

33. • Her Works:
Born to be Hanged: Political Biography of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Maulana Azad, Islam and the Indian National Movement
Islamic Seal on India's Independence: Abul Kalm Azad-- a Fresh Look

34. • Interesting Information about her:
Syeda Hameed is the founder trustee of the Women’s Initiative for Peace
in South Asia (WIPSA) and the Centre for Dialogue and
Reconciliation and a former member of the National Commission for
Women (1997–2000).[She served the Maulana Azad National Urdu
University (MANUU) as its chancellor, prior to the accession of Zafar
Sareshwala, the incumbent chancellor of the university on 2 January
2015. The Government of India awarded her the fourth highest civilian
honour of the Padma Shri, in 2007, for her contributions to Indian
society.