Kavitha Muralidharan is a senior bi-lingual journalist who writes in English and Tamil with an experience of twenty years in covering Tamil Nadu. She has extensively covered Tamil politics and is interested in writing on gender, caste, and culture.
She has worked across many platforms including The Hindu Tamil, India Today, The Week, Deccan Chronicle etc. She is currently an independent journalist writing among other places for The Firstpost, The Wire, The Hindustan Times and The Newsminute. She is also associated with the People's Archive of Rural India (ruralindiaonline.org) - a living journal and an archive of rural India) as a volunteer. She is a writer and translator.