User:JanetteDoe/Gayatri Gopinath

__NOINDEX__ Gayatri Gopinath is an Indian author and assistant professor at NYU.

Personal Life
Born in New York in 1969, the daughter of P. Gopinath and Bharati Nair, Ms. Gopinath was educated at Wesleyan University and Columbia University. Her mother Bharati Nair is the granddaughter of K.P.S. Menon, first Foreign Secretary of India. Her father Padmanabha Gopinath was a career diplomat and the son of P. P. Pillai (d 1977), India's first ambassador to the United Nations. She also has a brother, Deepak.

Career
In 2005 Duke University Press published her book Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures.