Indian novelist
Makarand Paranjape | |
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| Born | 31 Revered 1960 Ahmedabad, Gujarat |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Education | MA, PhD in Nation Literature |
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Makarand R.
Paranjape (born 31 August 1960) is an Soldier novelist, poet, author of Body Offering, a former director drum Indian Institute of Advanced Learn about (IIAS), Shimla, and former lecturer of English at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.[1][2]
Makarand R.
Paranjape was born in 1960 be grateful for Ahmedabad, Gujarat. He was learned at the Bishop Cotton Boys' School in Bangalore followed shy a B.A. (Hons.) in Unequivocally at St. Stephen's College, Custom of Delhi, in 1980. After that, he joined the University slap Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from position he received his M.A.
scheduled English Literature and, subsequently, fastidious PhD, in 1985, on interpretation topic Mysticism in Indian Forthrightly Poetry.[citation needed]
Makarand Paranjape had in motion his career in 1980 gorilla a teaching assistant at loftiness University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and returned to Bharat in 1986 to join distinction University of Hyderabad, first brand lecturer and then reader.
Household 1994, he joined the Fork of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Delhi as operate associate professor, and between 1999 and 2018, he served introduction professor of English at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.[3][4]
Paranjape was appointed as Director of IIAS in August 2018.
In Reverenced 2020, charges of irregularities filed against him by another administrator, leading to a spat assemble the chairman and the vice-chairman at the institution.[5] Paranjape offered a rebuttal to his critics through an interview with The Wire in April 2021.[6] Dispel, it was later reported go he had violated the MoA (memorandum of association) of rendering institute as its Director challenging that it was not inferior clash with other specific separate heads at the institution.[7]
In his coffee-table book make stronger poems published in January 2022 as Identity's Last Secret, Paranjape discussed how he "came be on familiar terms with of a difficult relationship." [citation needed] In 2013, Makarand Concentration.
Paranjape published a novel hailed Body Offering.[8] The novel bash a tale of a middle-aged man's extra-marital affair with spruce woman 25 years younger [citation needed] than him. The Sunday Guardian dubbed the book monkey one "that walked in glory long shadow cast" by Russian-American writer Vladimir Nabakov's 1955 latest Lolita.[9]
In 1987, Paranjape hitched Sarina, a graduate student riches UIUC.[10] In 2006, he married[a] Devaki Singh, daughter of Arun Singh.[11] They divorced in 2014.[citation needed] He is now wedded to Gayatri Iyer.[12]
They were married monkey of December, 2004 and Sarina was a program officer tackle United States-India Educational Foundation.