# Menaka and other ballets

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- Published: 2017-02-22T02:42:48+00:00
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**Author:** Vasanth Kannabiran[](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WP_20161222_15_22_47_Pro.jpg)
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Pages:** 100 **Year of Publication:** 2016 **Price:** Rs 250 **ISBN: **978-93-5045-
138-0 (9789350451380)

_**About the Author**_
 Vasanth Kannabiran graduated in English Literature from 
Presidency College, Madras, and she taught English to undergraduates for twenty 
years. She has been an active member of the women’s movement in India for the last
three decades, speaking and writing about women’s concerns, and has played a significant
role in introducing feminist issues to Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Kannabiran 
has been a consultant for the Central Government of India for evaluations and policy
making, bilateral and multilateral agencies, and has prepared studies on gender 
and human rights, gender and poverty and gender training. She has worked closely
with the Women’s Program of the Asian South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education and
the National Alliance of Women. A founding member of Asmita Resource Centre for 
Women, she has co-edited and co-authored publications like _Sarihaddulu Leni Sandhyalu_,
_Mahilavaranam, De-Eroticizing Assault_ and _E-Kalam_. Her most recent publications
are _A Grief to Bury: Memories of Love, Work and Loss, _and_ **[Till Death Do Us Part](http://www.writersworkshopindia.com/books/till-death-do-us-part/)**
_and _**[Minor Key and Other Poems](http://www.writersworkshopindia.com/books/poetry/redbird/minor-key-and-other-poems/)**_,
both published by **Writers Workshop**, India, in 2015. Kannabiran was nominated
from India among 1000 women for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005.

_**About the Book**_
 A collection of dance dramas (Bharatanatyam ballets) that 
look at female mythological characters in Indian epics and women of different faiths,
and their acts of love.

_**Contents**_
 _Preface_ / 9 Menaka / 11 Peace on Earth / 31 Ahalya / 53 Gandhari/
71 Rajasimha / 87