However, her family moved to Madras when she was nine years old, and stayed there till she was fifteen.

In Madras, she studied at the Rosary Matriculation School in Santhome till she was fourteen.

[3] She co-founded the Hyderabad Book Trust, a non-profit Telugu publishing collective.

She has published books in both English and Telugu, as the sole author of India Stinking (2005), and as co-author of Taking Charge of Our Bodies (2004), On Their Own (2005), and The Oxford India Anthology of Telugu Dalit Writing (2016).

She has also translated Devulapalli Krishnamurthi’s autobiography Ooru, Vaada, Batuku into English as Life in Anantharam (2016).