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Check what this novelist of Goan origin is working on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amita_Kanekar
Amita Kanekar is a Mumbai-based writer, whose well-received debut
novel A Spoke in the Wheel was published by Harper Collins Publishers,
India. Kanekar teaches comparitive mythology at the University of
Mumbai. She was born in Goa in 1965. She is currently (2006) working
on her second novel. She has lived in the U.S. as a child, and also
teaches Architectural History....
Kanekar is currently researching material and travelling for her
second novel, on the rebellion of a little known peasant community in
the time of the Mughal ruler of India, Aurangzeb. Kanekar's first
novel about the Buddha, A Spoke in the Wheel, has earned favourable
reviews. Published in 2005 by Harper Collins India, the book went into
its second edition that year itself.
Kanekar was born in Madgaon (Margao) in Goa in 1965 and lived in
Navelim, a nearby village, till the age of two, before leaving for the
US and subsequently for Mumbai where she lives today, teaching
Architectural History at the Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for
Architecture at Juhu, and Comparative Mythologies at the University of
Mumbai....
Her father Suresh Kanekar was jailed three times by the then
Portuguese government for his participation in the movement against
colonial rule. Her maternal aunt was Mitra Bir, freedom fighter and
educationist, who was sentenced to twelve years in jail at the age of
22, and later went on to open schools for girls at Madgaon (Margao),
Verem, Kakora and other locations in Goa, as also centres for adult
and vocational education for women, before her death in 1978. Mitra
was married to the late Madhav Bir, former member of the Goa
legislative assembly and Gandhian. Kanekar's maternal uncle, the late
M. V. Kakodkar was also active in the campaign to open temples to all
in Goa the 1960s....
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