About the Author

A freelance editor and writer, Padma Malini Sundararaghavan studied at Nirmala College,Coimbatore and at Stella Maris College before obtaining her doctoral degree in postcolonial fiction from the University of Madras. Her articles have been published in journals such as Literary Criterion. Padma Seshadri and Padma Malini Sundararaghavan worked as colleagues in the Department of English at Stella Maris College, Chennai. They share a fascination for river stories and the lives of saints, many of whom lived along the banks of India's sacred rivers.