Ananya Vajpeyi

Ananya Vajpeyi is an Indian academic and writer. She is Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies.[1] She is the author of the award-winning book "Righteous Republic: The Political foundations of Modern India" published by the Harvard University Press. She was born in 1972.

Life and career

Vajpeyi is the daughter of Sahitya Akademi award-winning poet Kailash Vajpeyi.[2] She is married to Basharat Peer, an opinion editor with the New York Times.[3]

Vajpeyi received her MA at the Jawaharlal Nehru University,[4] M.Phil from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar,[5] and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. She has taught at the University of Massachusetts[6] and Columbia University[7]

Works

Her book "Righteous Republic" won the Crossword Award for Non-Fiction (2013), jointly with "From the Ruins of Empire" by Pankaj Mishra.[8] It also won the Thomas J Wilson Memorial Prize from Harvard University Press[9] and the Tata First Book Award for Non-Fiction (2013).[10] It was also featured on the Books of the year 2012 list on The Guardian and The New Republic.[11][12]

She is the co-editor with Ramin Jahanbegloo of Ashis Nandy: A Life in Dissent (OUP, 2018)[13] and with Volker Kaul of Minorities and Populism: Critical Perspectives from South Asia and Europe (Springer, 2020).[14]

She writes regularly for The Hindu newspaper[15] and Scroll.in.[16] She has conceived, commissioned and guest edited several issues of Seminar magazine.[17]

See also

References
  1. "Ananya Vajpeyi". www.csds.in. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  2. Gulati, Sumegha (2 April 2015). "Kailash Vajpeyi: A poet embraces his favourite subject – death". The Indian Express. Indian Express Group. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  3. Peer, Basharat (2 March 2019). "Opinion | The Young Suicide Bomber Who Brought India and Pakistan to the Brink of War". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  4. Vajpeyi, Ananya (16 August 2014). "The story of my Sanskrit". The Hindu. N. Ram. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  5. "List of Scholars". The Rhodes Project. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  6. Vajpeyi, Ananya (11 July 2010). "Peace in His Time". History Faculty Publication Series.
  7. "People | Ananya Vajpeyi | The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University". heymancenter.org. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  8. "Ravi Subramaniam wins his third Crossword Book award in popular category". News18.com. News18.com. 9 December 2013. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  9. Thomas, Pramod (12 August 2014). "Gandhiji Overshadowed Ambedkar". The New Indian Express. The New Indian Express. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  10. Yasir, Sameer (16 December 2013). "Author interview: 'Swaraj was a quest for an Indian self,' says Ananya Vajpeyi". FirstPost. Network 18 media. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  11. Guardian, The (23 November 2012). "Books of the year 2012: authors choose their favourites". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  12. Staff, The New Republic (16 December 2012). "New Republic Editor and Writer Picks: Best Books of 2012". The New Republic. Hamilton Fish V. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  13. "Book Review: Ashis Nandy: A Life in Dissent". The Financial Express. 13 May 2018. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  14. Kaul, Volker; Vajpeyi, Ananya, eds. (2020). Minorities and Populism – Critical Perspectives from South Asia and Europe. Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations. Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-030-34097-1.
  15. "Ananya Vajpeyi". The Hindu. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  16. "Ananya Vajpeyi | Scroll.in". Ananya Vajpeyi. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  17. "Seminar issues guest edited by Ananya Vajpeyi". www.csds.in. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
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