Swati Pal
Professor Swati Pal, Principal, Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi, has been a Charles Wallace scholar and the first Asian awardee of the John McGrath Theatre Studies Scholarship at the University of Edinburgh. She has recently received Fullbright Nehru Fellowship for Educational Administrators. Author of several books on theatre, creative and academic writing, her newspaper articles articulate her views on education. Her areas of research interest include performance studies and cultural xviii Silver Linings: Shaping Minds and Institutions history. She translates from Hindi to English and many of her translations are published. She writes poetry and her poems appear in several anthologies; she also has two collections entitled ‘In Absentia and Forever Yours’ and an edited volume called ‘Living on’. She is the Vice Chair of the Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. She is the Delhi State Chair for the G100 Wing
for World Peace of the Women Economic Forum. She has been the recipient of several awards such as a Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding contribution in the area of educational administration and planning, besides gender development by Women’s Agency for generating Employment in 2017;
Exceptional Women of Excellence in Academia, 2017 Award by the All-Ladies League and Women Economic Forum and the 34th Dr. S Radhakrishnan Memorial National Teacher Award in 2018, among others.
