Anjali Deshpande
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Anjali Deshpande has been a journalist, activist involved with several campains and movemensts including the women’s movement and the struggle of Bhopal Gas Survivors for justice.
She is a bilingual writer. Her first novel Impeachment (Hachette India) was published in 2012 and its recreation in Hindi titled Mahabhiyog (Rajkamal Prakashan) was published in 2016. A collection of her short stories in Hindi, Ansari Ki Maut Ki Ajeeb Dastan (Setu Prakashan) appeared in 2019.
Hatya (Rajpal and Sons) the original novella of this translated version was also published in 2019. It has been translated and published in 2023 as Mord. (Draupadi Verlag publisher) and Nobody Lights A Candle in English by Speaking Tiger this year.
She is the co-authored a non-fiction book on the Struggles of Maruti workers with Nandita Haksar. Factory Japani Pratirodh Hindustani in Hindi (publisher Media Studies group) and Japanese Management Indian Resistance in English (Speaking Tiger) were both published in 2023. The book is being translated into Japanese.