AWARDS
- 2021, American Literary Translators’ Association Prize for Prose Fiction Translation, for No Presents Please (Jayant Kaikini)
- 2019, DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2018, jointly awarded with Jayant Kaikini, for No Presents Please
- 1995, Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Award for Best Translation of 1994
- 1993, Central Sahitya Akademi Award for Best Translation of the Year
FELLOWSHIPS
2018 | Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong |
2016 | Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, NUS Singapore |
2013 | Lichtstern Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago |
2013 | Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Internet and Society; Advisor to the Access to Knowledge Team working on the Indian Wikipedia |
2011 | Fellow, Institut d’etudes avancees [Institute of Advanced Studies/Research] de Nantes, France |
2007 | Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin [Institute of Advanced Studies], Germany |
2005 | Honorary Visiting Professor, Centre for Women’s Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University |
1997-99 | Sephis (Netherlands) Postdoctoral Fellowship |
1996 | Sawyer Fellow, International Institute, University of Michigan |
1996 | Rockefeller Fellow, Program in Globalization and the Media, Chicago Humanities Institute, University of Chicago |
1992-94 | Homi Bhabha National Fellowship |