Prabha Sridevan

PRABHA SRIDEVAN is a former judge of the Madras High Court (2000-2010) and the former chairperson of the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (2011-2013). Her judgments have dealt, among other things, with the right to freedom of speech, protection of heritage buildings, rights of the oppressed classes, rights of persons with disabilities, gender equality, the economic worth of a homemaker's work, compulsory licensing of a cancer drug, and challenge by Novartis to India's Patent Act. She...See more

PRABHA SRIDEVAN is a former judge of the Madras High Court (2000-2010) and the former chairperson of the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (2011-2013). Her judgments have dealt, among other things, with the right to freedom of speech, protection of heritage buildings, rights of the oppressed classes, rights of persons with disabilities, gender equality, the economic worth of a homemaker's work, compulsory licensing of a cancer drug, and challenge by Novartis to India's Patent Act. She writes in English and Tamil on issues of law and life. Her translated books include Seeing in the Dark (2015), Echoes of the Veena (2018), which won the Valley of Words Award 2019 for translation, Meeran's Stories (2022), The Man Who walked Backwards and other stories (2023) and Vazhga Vazhga and other stories (2023). See less