Rukmini Bhaya Nair
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Rukmini Bhaya Nair received her Ph.D at the University of CambridgeUniversity of Cambridge
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. She specializes in cognitive linguistics
Cognitive linguistics
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and critical theory
Critical theory
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. She is a professor of Linguistics
Linguistics
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and English
English language
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in the Department of Humanities
Humanities
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and Social Sciences
Social sciences
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at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. She is the author of The Ayodhya Cantos and The Hyoid Bone: Poems. She was mentioned among the "Faces of the Millennium" in Literature by the India Today magazine in 2000.
Her awards and fellowships include J.N. Tata Scholarship, the Hornby Foundation Award and the Dorothy Lee Grant besides winning Poetry prizes of Poetry Society ( India ) etc ...