PROFILE

sabita Sabita Radhakrishna is a free lance writer and broadcaster and has been associated for over twenty years with Doordarshan and A.I.R. as a script writer and programme hostess. Beyond the Storm a documentary on leprosy rehabilitation scripted by Sabita won Doordarshan its first international award by TRANSTEL (West Germany) in 1986. A playwright, Sabita's first play Under One Roof emerged after a playwrights workshop by Mahesh Dattani, and was read at British Council. Apart from small plays for children written for Doordarshan and directed by her, Song of the Loom is her first major play premiered in Chennai on March 21st, 22nd, 23rd 2008. Sabita writes a food column for a new magazine called INBOX 1305.

Sabita Radhakrishna has been involved with textiles for 30 years, and is a pioneer in the boutique concept in Chennai, and few can forget her Amrapali Boutique. Apart from three cookbooks one of which won the World Gourmand Award, Sabita's book on the Textiles of India is under publication. It is this passion for textiles and the grave situation that exists today in the handloom industry that drove her to pen Song of the Loom..

Sabita has been an active member of the Crafts Council of India and is an Executive Committee Member. She is also Senior Consultant at Kalakshetra Foundation's CERC (Craft Education and Research Centre).She is a trustee for two educational trusts which sponsor the education of poor children right through school.

Sabita regularly lectures to groups of American tourists on craft and textiles. She hosts typical South Indian meals for them and invites them to experience the “family” in her household, and talks about Indian culture and family ties, and food habits.

Sabita Radhakrishna lives in South Chennai with her husband and mother. Her son and his family live in Dubai. Her son-in-law and two grandchildren live in the same apartment building. She enjoys being wife, daughter, mom and grandmom!

Having been deeply involved in craft for 30 years, she values her work with craftspeople and their welfare. She has been involved in loom projects for Crafts Council of India and writes extensively on craft and textiles.

Sabita heads the Literary Hub Committee at the Madras Gymkhana Club, organizing poetry reading, play reading and interviews with successful authors…
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