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.

]]> en Sat, 11 15, 2025 10:00 am 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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