Verghese Kurien (The Milkman of India)

Rohini Chowdhury is a widely published children's wirter, and an established literary translator. As a children's writer, she has more than twenty books and several short stories to her credit. Her published wirting is in Hindi and English, and covers a wide spectrum of literary genres including transaltions, novel, short fiction, comics, and non-fiction. Her most recent publications for children include The Garden of the Djinn, a fantasy adventure novel. Rohini's primary languages as a literary translator ar pre-modern (Braj Bhasha and Avadhi) and modern (Khari Boli) Hindi, and English. Her translations include the seventeenth century Braj Bhasha text Ardhakathanak, widely regarded as the first autobiography in an Indian language, into modern Hindi and into English, and the Hindi novel Tyagpatra [The Resignation] by Jainendra, one of the leading Hindi novelists of the modern period, into English.