6 Exceptional Indian Women Writers

Indira Goswami
Indira Goswami was the Indian novelist, poet, professor, editor and a scholar. She was better known by the name Mamoni Baideo. A winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1983, the Janpith Award in 2001 and Principal Prince Claus Laureate in 2008, Goswami was a celebrated contemporary writer in Assamese. Many of her works has been translated to English which includes ‘Pages Stained with Blood’, ‘The Moth Eater Howdah of the Tusker’ and ‘The Man from Chinnamasta.’
She also worked in order to structure social changes, with her writings and her role as a mediator between the armed militant group in Assam and the Government of India. Her involvement led to the formation of the People’s Consultative Group, a peace committee in 2005; however, it was dissolved in 2011. She called herself an ‘observer’ of the peace process instead of initiator or mediator. Her work has been adapted to stage performance and film. Her novel adapted into the film Adajya has received international awards.

The Indian women writers have used words to their advantage, empowering women and molding society with their concocted stories and well states opinions.

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