Rukmini Bhaya Nair is a linguist, poet, writer and critic from India. She won the First Prize for her poem kali in the "All India Poetry Competition" in 1990 organised by The Poetry Society (India) in collaboration with British Council.She is currently a Professor at the Humanities and Social Sciences department of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi).Nair is known for being a trenchant critic of the Hindutva ideology and the religious and caste discrimination that it promotes. Books by Rukmini Bhaya Nair Lying On The Postcolonial Couch: The Idea Of Indifference Yellow Hisbiscus: New and Selected Poems Poetry in a Time of Terror: Essays in the Postcolonial Preternatural The Ayodhya Cantos: Poems Narrative Gravity: Conversation, Cognition, Culture