MURALI SIVARAMAKRISHNAN– poet, painter, professor and literary critic–is the author of The Mantra of Vision (1997), Learning to Think Like Myself(2010), Communication, and Clarification: Essays on English in the Indian Classroom(2014) Strategies and Methods: Relocating Textual Meaning (2018) and a number of critical essays and seven volumes of poetry. An acclaimed artist and poet he is also a committed environmentalist. His paintings have gone on display at several major exhibitions. He has held several solo exhibitions of his paintings. He was Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Teen Murti, New Delhi, and Associate of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. He is member and coordinator of research of the Herman Hesse Society of India. He is also member of editorial and advisory boards of many acclaimed journals. Dr S Murali is the founder President of ASLE India. Murali’s Nature and Human Nature: Literature, Ecology, Meaning (2009) is a pioneering work on Indian ecocriticism. Its sequel, Ecological Criticism for Our Times: Literature, Nature and Critical Inquiry (2011) –ASLE India’s second book—has also received high accolades. He was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Travel Grant to teach and do research in the University of Nevada at Reno (2006), and was invited to read his poems as part of the inauguration of the International Conference on Poetic Ecologies, held in the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, in May 2008. In 2018 he was invited to deliver a plenary lecture at the ASLE Brazil Conference in the Federal University of Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil.
The other books he has authored include: South Indian Studies (Ed) (1998); Figuring the Female: Women’s Discourse, Art and Literature (2005) Tradition and Terrain: Aesthetic Continuities (both co-authored with Dr. Usha V.T.); Ecological Criticism for Our Times: Literature, Nature and the Critical Inquiry (2011); Under the Greenwood Tree: Reading for Pleasure and Comprehension.(Ed) (2011);Image and Culture: The Dynamics of Literary, Aesthetic and Cultural Representation(2011); Inter-Readings: Text, Context, Significance. Ed. (2012); Communication, and Clarification: Essays on English in the Indian Classroom (2014); Sri Aurobindo’s Aesthetics and Poetics: New Directions (2014); Strategies and Methods: Relocating Textual Meaning (2018); Losing Nature: Narratives of Forest and Water –Environmental challenges in Brazil and India (with Zelia Bora Lexington Books, 2018); Roads to Nowhere (2020) ;Sri Aurobindo or the Poetics of Hope (2022) and
Post-Green: Literature, Culture, and the Environment (Lexington,2023)
Two of his books have been translated into the Malayalam.
Awards include the Life-Time Achievement Award for Poetry by GIEWEC, Guild of Indian English Writers, Editors and Critics, 2014. And IMRF Excellence Award, 2015
Poetry volumes: Night Heron (1998); Conversations with Children (2005); Earth Signs (2006); The East-Facing Shop (2010); Selected Poems (2014) Silverfish (2016) and Notebook of a Naturalist (2020)
*He can be reached at smuraliartist@gmail.com; smurali1234@yahoo.com; smurals@gmail.com
*WEB SITE: https://www.muralis.co.in
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