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Akila Kannadasan

Akila Kannadasan, a journalist with The Hindu for 14 years, is the author of Seaside Stories (2023). A storyteller and mother of two, she’s now writing two novels and a Dalit leader’s biography.
on Nov 15, 2025
Akila Kannadasan

Akila Kannadasan is a journalist with The Hindu with 14 years of experience in feature writing. Born and raised in Coimbatore, she has reported extensively from Chennai, with career-defining work on the city’s fishing community. Her first book, Seaside Stories (2023), is a compilation of essays on Chennai’s fisherfolk. A mother of two, she ventured into children’s writing as their primary storyteller, and is also working on two novels and a biography of a Dalit leader.

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