Anuradha Marwah is an author and academic and identifies herself as a feminist. She has written three novels - The Higher Education of Geetika Mehendiratta (1993); Idol Love (1999); and Dirty Picture (2008) - that explore Indian women's negotiations with the fast globalising nation and society. Her plays have been performed in various cities in India and also in Stockholm. Her latest play, 'Ismat's Love Stories’, which is about the feminist writer Ismat Chughtai's mercurial relationship with Saadat Hasan Manto, was shortlisted for the Hindu Playwright Award 2016 and has had several shows. She has also written short stories, poems, television scripts and popular and academic articles. Anuradha Marwah is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Zakir Husain Delhi College, Delhi University. She teaches Indian Writing in English, Creative Writing, and Drama and Performance and researches the market for Indian fiction in English. She has co-authored the first textbook on Creative Writing for her University. She is currently at work on a novel about everyday performances and what acting and activism might lead to in a middle-class neighbourhood of Delhi. In ICGC, University of Minnesota as Fulbright Visiting Faculty, she will collaborate with Professor Richa Nagar in teaching the course entitled, ‘Stories, Bodies, Movements’. She also hopes to refine her understanding of the symbiotic relationship between stories and real life and life performances and activism during her four month visit here.