Nirmala Govindarajan

Nirmala Govindarajan is an author, social sector documentarian, journalist, yoga teacher, travel writer, and pioneer of the Writer’s Yatra and Reader’s Yatra experiences in off-beat locations. She travels extensively for work, and for the love of being everywhere. Her novels are inspired by people in the hinterlands, and her latest work Taboo (Picador, 2019), has been nominated for The Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize, Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival Awards, and JK Paper Women AutHer Awards. Her novel 'Hunger’s Daughters' is born out of her experience of documenting in the heartlands of Orissa and Jharkhand. Nirmala has authored 'The Community Catalyst', recommended reading for civil services aspirants, and 'Man in the Mirror'. She has conceptualised and co-authored Mind Blogs 1.0. In 2014, Nirmala co-curated the debut Times Literary Carnival, in Bangalore, and in 2016, conceptualised and curated the Literary Lounge and Know Your Classics experiences for the British Council, Bangalore. Nirmala dabbles in theater and art and plays the western classical piano and violin.