Mala Kumar's Blog

You can win a free signed copy of The Paths of Marriage at the link below. Normally the contest is only open to those in the US and Canada, but I am extending the area to France as well. I will pay for the shipping cost myself. France and the French culture play an important […]

Mala will be reading from The Paths of Marriage as part of the Second Annual Indo-American Arts Council, Inc. (IAAC) Literary Festival in late October at Hunter College in New York City. More details are coming the third week of September.

India.com (US edition) interviewed Mala on what it was like coming out as a South Asian person, and the concept of The Paths of Marriage. Click here to read the interview.

Over the next few weeks, stayed tuned for information on an open call for playwrights to adapt The Paths of Marriage for the theater. We’ll announce the commissioning theater company at that time.

Check out Mala’s New School Minute lecture as part of Alumni Day on 9 May 2015. The lecture discusses being LGBTQ in international development and ICT4D.

As part of the #InTheirWords campaign, USA Today interviewed Mala on issues related to the LGBT community in the States and abroad ahead of the US Supreme Court decision in June. The six clips are to the right South Asian | This moment in history | State and federal | Supreme Court | State bans […]

Excellent news – The Paths of Marriage is a finalist for the Golden Crown Literary Society (“The Goldies”) in the General/Dramatic Fiction category! Click here to see all of the finalists. Find out if The Paths of Marriage wins this July in New Orleans, LA, USA at the annual GCLS conference.

Mala and Tanwi Nandini Islam are interviewed for their work on sexuality and LGBTQ rights at the 2015 SAWCC Literary Festival. Click here to read.

Here’s the author’s story the day The Paths of Marriage came out. Click here to read.

Ahead of the first The Paths of Marriage event of 2015, GayRVA magazine interviewed Mala on being queer in the south and being south Asian and queer. Click here to read the article.