Githa Hariharan

Githa Hariharan is a leading Indian author and editor based in New Delhi. Hariharan’s published work includes novels, short stories, essays, newspaper articles and columns. Her first novel,
The Thousand Faces of Night won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best first book in 1993. Her new book is a collection of her own essays,
Almost Home: Cities and Other Places. In 1995, Hariharan challenged the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act as discriminatory against women. The case,
Githa Hariharan and Another vs. Reserve Bank of India and Another, led to a Supreme Court judgment in 1999 on guardianship. She is currently a Writer-in-Residence at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore from January to July 2015.
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