Manju Kak

About Manju Kak

Manju Kak is a short story writer. She is also a critic, an art and cultural archivist and a women’s activist. Her published works of short fiction include First Light in Colonelpura, Penguin, 1995; Requiem for an Unsung Revolutionary, Ravi Dayal, 1996; Just One Life and other Stories,imprintOne dist, Cambridge University Press, 2013; and In the Shadow of the Devi – Kumaon: of a Land, a People, a Craft, Niyogi Books, 2018.Her edited works include Nicholas Roerich – a Quest & Legacy, Niyogi Books, 2013 and Whose Media: A Woman’s Space (Ed. and Author), Concept Publishers, 1998.Her writing has appeared in anthologies, newspapers, journals, and magazines in India and abroad since 1989, and her work has appeared in Out of Print. Her scholarship and curatorial work in visual ethnography and art/socio-cultural studies on the Himalayas is extensive. She has a PhD in the History of Art from the National Museum, New Delhi.She is the Secretary General, All India Women's Conference and a former Vice President of the International Alliance for Women.