Manju Kak

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Manju Kak
Nationality Indian
Occupation Writer
Film-maker

Manju Kak is a writer and film-maker. She is an author, critic, an art and cultural historian. She has also been a volunteer engaged in development issues and women’s organizations. Her books are:

  • First Light in Colonelpura
  • Requiem for an unsung revolutionary and other stories
  • Nicholas Roerich: Painter of the Himalayas--Legacy & Quest

Her fiction, essays, critical reviews, and articles have appeared in newspapers, journals, anthologies and magazines in India and abroad since 1990 including The Hindu, Women’s Press, Times of India, The Westview Press, Katha Prize Stories, Kali for Women, Mail Today, Express, Toronto Review, Hong Kong Standard, Arts of Asia, Little Magazine, Canadian Feminist Studies Journal. Her published works include First Light in Colonelpura (Penguin); Requiem for an Unsung Revolutionary (Ravi Dayal) and Whose Media—a Woman’s Space (Ed-Concept). Currently Nicholas Roerich—a Quest & Legacy (Niyogi Books) and Just one Life and other stories is due in 2013. She is the recipient of the Hawthornden & Charles Wallace &Ministry of Culture fellowships among many others. She has been particularly drawn to Himalayan ethnography and culture, and has researched and curated exhibitions on the same, including ‘A Craftsman and his Craft: Iconography of Woodcarvings of Kumaon’ (1998); The Uttarakhand Development Report—Handicrafts (2003) ‘N. Roerich, Painter of the Himalayas--the Roerich Peace Pact & Banner of Peace’ (2009); and directed a documentary film `They who walked Mountains’ the erstwhile salt routes from India to Tibet. She has a Ph.D in Art History from the National Museum, New Delhi, and has been a teacher and Visiting Professor of art history, literature and cultural studies, in Delhi, UK, & Hong Kong.( Centre for Nehru Studies &Academy Third World Studies Jamia Millia Islamia; National Museum Institute, New Delhi; St.Stephen’s College & Open Learning Univ, Hong Kong; St. Columba’s School New Delhi. She has worked as a Consultant with the Ministry of Culture (50th Anniversary Celebrations) (1997-98); and INTACH, COHANDS ( Handicraft Board) . 

Currently she is Member in Charge in the all India Women’s Conference (AIWC) established in 1927, and Trustee of the Lal Bahadur Shastri Memorial Trust. She has served on various NGO Committees and attended Conferences in India and abroad.

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