Kalpana Karunakaran is an Associate Professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences Department, IIT Madras. Kalpana’s research and writings lie in the domain of gender, development, labour and collective action/ social movements. Kalpana writes in Tamil and English. Her books include ‘Women, Microfinance, and the State in Neo-liberal India’ (Routledge, 2017) and a memoir, Comrade Amma: Magal Parvaiyil Mythily Sivaraman (Comrade Mother: A daughter’s portrait of Mythily Sivaraman) published in 2018.
