SUGATA SRINIVASARAJU is a bilingual journalist, author and columnist. He has editorially led some of the major print, television and digital news brands in the past. He has been a Chevening scholar in the UK, fellow of the Aspen Institute in the US and is currently a Homi Bhabha fellow.Srinivasaraju's books include Furrows in a Field: The Unexplored Life of H.D. Deve Gowda; Keeping Faith with the Mother Tongue: The Anxieties of a Local Culture; Pickles from Home: The Worlds of a Bilingual; and in Kannada, Kittale, Nerale, Perale: Avasarakke Yetukida Maatu Baraha, which won him the ViChi literary prize. His book Phoenix and Four Other Mime Plays won him the Karnataka Sahitya Academy's translation prize.