Arundhathi Subramaniam

Who is Arundhathi Subramaniam?

Arundhathi Subramaniam is a poet and writer and on spirituality and culture. She has worked over the years as poetry editor, curator, and journalist on literature, classical dance and theatre. She divides her time between Bombay and a yoga centre in Coimbatore.

Arundhathi Subramaniam is the author of three books of poems:most recently Where I Live: New & Selected Poems Bloodaxe Books, UK. Her prose works include the bestselling biography of a contemporary mystic Sadhguru: More Than a Life, Penguin and a book on the Buddha, Penguin Books. As editor, she has worked on a Penguin anthology of essays on sacred journeys in the country, and co-edited a Penguin anthology of contemporary Indian love poems in English.

As a poet, she has been invited to literary conferences and festivals in various parts of India, as well as in the UK, Italy, Spain, Holland, Turkey, China, West Africa and Israel, and her work has been translated into several languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Italian and Spanish.

She has received the Raza Award for Poetry, as well as the Charles Wallace Fellowship in 2003; the Visiting Arts Fellowship for a poetry tour of the UK in 2006; and the Homi Bhabha Fellowship in 2012.