Kavitha Muralidharan

Journalist

Kavitha Muralidharan is a bilingual journalist from Tamil Nadu with two decades of experience covering a wide range of issues from politics to culture and cinema. She has worked with News Today, The Hindu group, India Today and The Week. She is right now an independent journalist contributing to major print and online news magazines. Kavitha Muralidharan volunteers with People's Archive of Rural India as a translation coordinator. She is currently a senior reporting fellow with People's Archive of Rural India. She writes largely on politics on Tamil Nadu, but also has deep interest in cinema and literature. She has a poetry collection and a collection of essays in Tamil to her credit. She has also translated an anonymous woman's blog writings on Iraqi war into Tamil. More recently, she had co-translated Perumal Murugan's Amma into English which was published by Westland.