Rita Kothari

Rita Kothari (born 30 July 1969) is a Gujarati and English language author and translator from Gujarat, India. In an attempt to preserve her memories and her identity as a member of the Sindhi people, Kothari wrote several books on partition and its effects on people. She has translated several Gujarati works into English. Kothari completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1989 at St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad, followed two years later by a Master of Arts degree in English literature at the University of Pune. She was awarded a Master of Philosophy degree in 1995 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 2000 from Gujarat University for her research work in The Experience of Translating Hindi Prose and Translating India : The Cultural Politics of English, respectively. Kothari teaches in the English department at Ashoka University, Sonipat. She worked from 2007 to 2017 with the Humanities and Social Sciences Department at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar. She taught Indian literature in English and translation at St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad from 1992 to 2007. Following that she joined MICA (Institute of Strategic Marketing and Communication) as a professor in culture and communication.