Rukmini Bhaya Nair

Rukmini Bhaya Nair
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Scientific career
FieldsLinguistics
Cognition
Literary Theory
InstitutionsIndian Institute of Technology Delhi (present)
Jawaharlal Nehru University
National University of Singapore
University of Washington at Seattle
Websitesites.google.com/site/rukminibhayanairshomepage/

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.