India, Writer
She is a Mumbai-based bilingual writer, translator, culture columnist, theatre historian, playwright, novelist and film-script writer. Her novels, Rita Welinkar and Tya Varshi, both translated by her into English, have won Maharashtra State awards. Her plays have been directed by Satyadev Dubey and Sunil Shanbag. She has translated major Marathi plays, novels, essays and autobiographies into English. She received the Sangeet Natak Akademi award for overall contribution to the performing arts in 2016 and the Balshastri Jambhekar award for her Marathi translation of Jerry Pinto’s novel Em and the Big Hoom, in the same year.