Meenakshi Mukherjee was a litterateur and Sahitya Akademi Award winner.Her book, ‘An Indian for all seasons’, a biography of historian R.C. Dutt, published by Penguin, was to be released in Delhi.Smt.Mukherjee received the Sahitya Akademi award in 2003 for her book ‘The Perishable Empire: Essays on Indian Writing in English’. She taught English literature and critical theories in a number of colleges in Patna, Pune, Delhi and University of Hyderabad.Her last and longest spell was as Professor of English in the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She was a visiting professor in several universities outside India, including University of Texas at Austin, University of Chicago, University of California at Berkeley, Macquarie University (Sydney), University of Canberra and Flinders University (Adelaide).