Manju Jaidka
Manju Jaidka is a Professor of English at the Panjab University, Chandigarh, in India. She is regarded as a leading Indian academic, best known for her contribution to Twentieth-Century English and American Poetry, American Studies in India, and World Literatures. She is the author of critical books regarded as standard texts in the field and considers her teaching job as her most important work. One of her main concerns is to forge an international network of like-minded academics for the exchange of scholarship, a task she has been successfully engaged in over the last two decades.
Jaidka is also the Chairperson of the Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi. In this capacity she has made a tremendous contribution towards the promotion of literature and culture in Chandigarh.
Biography
Born in Hathwala, a small village in Karnal District, Haryana, to Bhim Sain and Padma Tyagi, Manju Jaidka spent much of her childhood in Ambala where she studied in Convent of Jesus and Mary. Later, she moved with her parents to Secunderabad and finished High School from St. Anne's. For her graduation she enrolled in Govt. College for Women, Chandigarh, and her postgraduation and doctoral degrees were obtained from Panjab University's Department of English. Jaidka lives in Chandigarh with her husband, Vickram Jaidka. They have two daughters; they also had a son called Raghav (Raju) born in 1977, a special child who died in November 2014. <http://manjujaidka.blogspot.in/2008/11/another-milestone-for-raju.html> and <http://manjujaidka.blogspot.in/2014/12/goodbye-raju.html>.
