Books
Virgo
I sing Tyagaraja kritis, I learned Bharata Natyam, I paint in oil and acrylic.
Losing my memory.
Getting my Ph.D. at the age of 45.
Getting a Five-Star-Award for teaching excellence from the University of Arizona.
Receiving letters of rejection for my fictional work "Veiled Murders."
Malala Yousafzai
Janie Crawford
Baby Jane Hudson
Chinua Achebe, May Ayim, Jhumpa Lahiri, Agatha Christie, Patricia Highsmith, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allen Poe, Guenter Grass, Thomas Mann, Hannah Arendt, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Zehra Çırak, Kemal Kurt, Zafer Şenocak, Charles Dickens
Things Fall Apart, Little Women, Agony and Ecstasy, Interpreter of Maladies, The Color Purple
Little Women
Waterloo Bridge, The Prisoner of Zenda, Mughal-e-Azam, The Great Dictator, Pathala Bhairavi
Ability to see my fictional characters in the flesh as I create them.
The beginning of new adventures!
The Indus Valley Civilization for my childhood and adolescence; China (the Zhou Dynasty: 1046-256 BCE) for my adult life; Bhutan for my silver years.
Athletic prowess.
A graphic novel with Wodehousian characters and humor.
Whenever I have time. Always at home.
Music
Can I say something?
A ritual: listening to my Beatles album.
Reading murder mysteries!
Never give up!
Kamakshi Pappu Murti is Professor Emerita of German at Middlebury College. She has published extensively on German and European colonialism and imperialism, minorities discourse, and second- and foreign-language education. She is the author of “India: the Seductive and Seduced 'Other' of German Orientalism” (Praeger, 2001), and “To Veil or not to Veil: Europe's Shape-Shifting 'Other'” (Peter Lang, 2013). Since retirement in 2008, she has turned to writing fiction: “Murders Most Matronly” (Juggernaut Books, 2017), “Lalli’s Window” (Austin Macauley, 2017), “Murders in the Ivory Tower” (Pegasus, UK), and “Bandilanka’s Forgotten Lives (publication date November 3, 2021 by Leadstart Publishers, India)
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