Mridula garg autobiography for kids

Indian writer (born 1938)

Mridula Garg (born 1938) is an Indian writer who writes in Hindi and English languages.^[1][2] She has published over 30 books in Hindi – novels, short story collections, plays and collections of essays – including several translated into English.^[3] She is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award.^[4][5]

Biography

Garg was raised in Delhi by her parents with five sisters and a brother, and began writing stories while she was a child.^[6] She completed her master's in economics in 1960 and taught economics in University of Delhi for three years.^{[citation needed]}

She published her debut novel, Uske Hisse Ki Dhoop, in 1975.^[6] She was arrested for obscenity after her novel Chittacobra was published in 1979, in a case that extended for two years but did not result in prison.^[7] Several of her works have feminist themes, and she told The Hindu