Team Kitaab is in conversation with authors Urmilla Deshpande and Thiago Pinto Barbosa, on their latest work Iru : The Remarkable Life of Irawati Karve (Speaking Tiger, 2024).
Urmilla Deshpande writes novels and short fiction. Her published work includes A Pack of Lies, Slither: Carnal Prose, and Body and Blood: Stories on Breaking the Ten Commandments.
Thiago Pinto Barbosa is a Brazilian anthropologist based in Leipzig and Berlin. Thiago’s doctoral dissertation published as Racializing Caste: Anthropology between Germany and India and the Legacy of Irawati Karve (1905-1970) has received multiple awards.