She has been active in the feminist movement and gay liberation movements. Namjoshi has been influenced by Virginia Woolf, Adrienne Rich, her friend Hilary Clare, and Kate Millett's Sexual Politics. Kaliyug - Circles Of Paradise (play) and Flesh And Paper (poetry) were written in collaboration Gillian Hanscombe. She began writing full-time in 1987, publishing fiction and poetry works. It was described in Feminism, one of her voices as a minor feminist classic and the work for which Namjoshi, who the article said produced a "brilliant body of work, marked by sparkling wit, word play and inventive power, emerged", is best known.
Namjoshi taught in the Department of English at the University of Toronto from 1972 to 1987. She studied Public Administration and earned her Master's degree from the University of Missouri and earned a PhD from McGill University on Ezra Pound. Having passed the IAS in 1964, she worked as an officer in the Indian Administrative Service before pursuing further education. Suniti was sent to Woodstock, an American mission school in the Himalayan foothills, and then to Rishi Valley in Andhra Pradesh where Jiddu Krishnamurti used to come and talk to the children for a couple of months each year. Her mother, Sarojini Namjoshi, née Naik Nimbalkar, was from Phaltan. He was killed when his plane crashed in 1953.
Her father, Manohar Vinayak Namjoshi, was senior test pilot at Hindustan Aircraft in Bangalore. Suniti Namjoshi was born in Mumbai in 1941. Her work has been translated into several languages, including Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Chinese, Korean, Hindi and Turkish. She has written many collections of fables and poetry, several novels, and more than a dozen children's books. Her work is playful, inventive and often challenges prejudices such as racism, sexism, and homophobia. She grew up in India, worked in Canada and at present lives in the southwest of England with English writer Gillian Hanscombe. Suniti Namjoshi (born 1941 in Mumbai, India) is a poet and a fabulist. University of Missouri (Master's degree).
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