GITHANJALI is the pen name of Dr Bharathi, MS, who by profession is a Doctor, Sexologist and Psychotherapist. Based in Hyderabad and a member of the Revolutionary Writers Association, Telangana State, Githanjali started writing in Telugu around the age of 13 and won the Sri Sri Memorial Award for poetry. Since 1990, she has been writing with a clear Marxist perspective. Her novel, Aame Adavini Jayinchindi (She Conquered the Forest), was published in 1998 and won the Appajosyula-Vishnubhotla Award. Since then, she has stopped taking awards from private and government literary organizations. Her second novel, concerning caste and gender - Pada Mudralu (Foot Impressions) - is still unpublished. Her first collection of stories in Telugu is Bachedaani (The Uterus) depicting individual and collective problems of women, including reproductive rights, sexual and health issues, sexual and domestic violence. Her second book, Pehechaan (Identity), which has been translated into Hindi, is a collection of 16 stories concerning issues of Muslim women, such as child marriage and trafficking, teenage pregnancies and polygamy. Her third anthology, Palamuru Valasa Bathuku Chithralu (Stories of Migrant Lives from Palamuru), has stories of sufferings and struggles of people who migrated from Palamuru to Kashmir. Her forthcoming novels focus on rape, manual scavenging and Hindu fascism.