Markandaya Profile

Kamala Markandaya has passed away a few days ago and Outlook India has a profile.

Indo-Canadian poet and academic Uma Parameswaran, who has studied Markandaya’s oeuvre and interviewed her, is of the opinion that she was “a pioneer member of the Indian Diaspora, and her best novel, The Nowhere Man (1972) foreshadows many diasporic issues with which we are preoccupied today”.

Here‘s the article.