Rukmini Bhaya Nair
Rukmini Bhaya Nair | |
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| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Linguistics Cognition Literary Theory |
| Institutions | Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (present) Jawaharlal Nehru University National University of Singapore University of Washington at Seattle |
| Website | sites |
Rukmini Bhaya Nair is a linguist, poet, writer and critic of India. She won the First Prize for her poem kali in the "All India Poetry Competition" in 1990 organised by The Poetry Society (India) in collaboration with British Council. She is currently a professor at Humanities and Social Sciences department of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi). Nair is known for being a critic of the Hindutva ideology and religious and caste discrimination in India.