Kavitha Muralidharan is a bilingual journalist from Tamil Nadu with two decades of experience covering a wide range of issues from politics to culture and cinema. She started working in 1998 with News Today – a evening newspaper based out of Chennai and has worked with major publications including The Hindu group, India Today and The Week. She was part of the team that launched The Hindu Tamil and was heading its reporting section, before moving to India Today Tamil to take over as its associate editor.

She has done her BA in English literature at Meenakshi College in Chennai and MA in political science at the University of Madras.

She is right now an independent journalist contributing to major print and online news magazines. Kavitha Muralidharan volunteers with People’s Archive of Rural India as a translation coordinator. She is currently a senior reporting fellow with People’s Archive of Rural India.

Kavitha Muralidharan has won the PII-ICRC award for reporting for her story on Sri Lankan War in 2009 published by The Week Magazine. She has also been a recipient of numerous awards including Vijay TV’s best woman journalist award in 2014.

She writes largely on politics on Tamil Nadu, but also has deep interest in cinema and literature. She’s been writing regularly on cultural scenario of Tamil Nadu in various publications. She has consistently written on human rights and women’s issues besides the issues of the marginalised in the State. She had done a series of stories from Sri Lanka on its civil war and aftermath, and how it had affected the ordinary citizens.

 She occasionally writes columns in Tamil besides doing translations from English to Tamil and vice versa. She has a poetry collection and a collection of essays in Tamil to her credit. Kavitha has also translated an anonymous woman’s blog writings on Iraqi war into Tamil. 

More recently, she had co-translated Perumal Murugan's Amma into English which was published by Westland