“…my hope is that they will see the value of turning familiar stories upside down, the value of unpopular, non-mainstream perspectives, the value of using a feminist lens.”- K. Srilata (Author & Poet)
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Team Kitaab is in conversation with author and poet K.Srilata to talk about her latest book, Footnotes to the Mahabharata (Context, 2025).
K Srilata’s most recent collection of poems titled Footnotes to the Mahabharata, the research for which was supported by the India Foundation for the Arts, is just out from Westland/Context. Srilata’s poems have been widely anthologized and feature in collections such as The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets and The Penguin Book of Indian Poets.
Her book This Kind of Child: The `Disability’ Story (Westland) is a book about the disability experience. Srilata’s books include five collections of poetry including Three Women in a Single-Room House (Sahitya Akademi), the anthologies The Rapids of a Great River: The Penguin Book of Tamil Poetry and Short Fiction from South India (OUP), among others.
Srilata’s novel Table for Four (Penguin, India) was longlisted in 2009 for the Man Asian literary prize. Srilata has been a writer in residence at the University of Stirling, Scotland, at Yeonhui Art Space, Seoul, and at Sangam House. Formerly a Professor of Literature at IIT Madras, Srilata is currently a Distinguished Visiting Professor at SNU, Chennai.
