Varsha Adalja

Who is Varsha Adalja?

Varsha Adalja, full name Varsha Mahendra Adalja, is a Gujarati feminist novelist, playwright and negotiator who won the 1995 Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati language for his novel Ansar. She is also a dramatist, writing for stage plays, screenplays, and radio. She has penned 40 books including 22 novels and seven volumes of short stories.

She did her B.A. in Gujarati and Sanskrit from Mumbai University in 1960. Later she did her M.A. in Sociology in 1962. She has produced an award-winning television film on leprosy.