Career
Her field of interest is feminist economics. She is the author of Her Story So Far: Tales of the Girl Child in India and The Other Woman, an edited volume which draws attention to the issue of the socio-economic impact of underage marriage, bigamy and polygamy on the Human Development Index and Gender-related Development Index. She is the great-granddaughter of legendary Oriya writer Fakir Mohan Senapati.
She has recently been a commissioned author for the International Development & Education Award (International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance) which is an Inter-governmental Organisation of the European Union, Sweden.
Her analytical paper is on "The European Union’s Contribution to Women's Rights and Women's Inclusion: Aspects of Democracy Building in South Asia, with special reference to India". She has produced and directed a film on Fakir Mohan Senapati a leading literary light of Indian literature and considered a pioneer in fiction writing on social realism.
This film ‘Anwesan’ was sponsored by Prasar Bharti and is now available in Digital Video Disc form with the Doordarshan Archives. She has also written numerous articles on Indian art, culture and heritage published in various magazines.
New Delhi New York, New York: Penguin.
