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Namita Waikar

About The Author

Namita Waikar is the author of The Long March, a novel about the agrarian crisis in India that triggered a farmers' protest movement. Waikar studied biochemistry at the University of Mumbai and is a partner in a chemistry databases firm, a culmination of her work as a biochemist and a software project manager. She is co-founder and managing editor at the People's Archive of Rural India (PARI), where she also writes for and anchors the Grindmill Songs Project. She lives in Pune.

Books by Namita Waikar