Meenakshi Mukherjee

Meenakshi Mukherjee (died 16 September 2009, aged 72) was a litterateur and Sahitya Akademi Award winner.

Mukherjee received the Sahitya Akademi award in 2003 for her book The Perishable Empire: Essays on Indian Writing in English.

[1] She taught English literature and Critical theory at several colleges in Patna, Pune, Delhi and University of Hyderabad.

Her last and longest spell was as Professor of English in the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

[citation needed] Her husband Sujit Mukherjee, was a teacher and a literary scholar.