Tejaswini Niranjana

In 2019, No Presents Please was awarded the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2018, which Niranjana shared jointly with Jayant Kaikini.

[citation needed] Niranjana was the co-founder and a senior fellow at the Centre for Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore, where she was also Lead Researcher in the HEIRA Program.

[citation needed] Since 2021, Niranjana serves as the director, Centre for Inter-Asian Research; and as Dean of Online Programmes, Ahmedabad University.

[citation needed] Niranjana was the co-founder and a senior fellow at the Centre for Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore, where she was also Lead Researcher in the HEIRA Program.

[7] The film, co-produced by filmmaker Surabhi Sharma, connected the worlds of gender, music and migration and was well received by the media.

[10] As part of the same project, she once again collaborated with filmmaker Surabhi Sharma to produce the film Phir Se Sam Pe Aana (Returning to the first beat).

[11] She has lecturedin the West Indies, Brazil, South Africa, Japan, Taiwan, the U.S, and the U.K.[12] She learned music for a decade from Mumbai-based Gwalior gharana singer Neela Bhagwat.