Ambai will be delivering the lecture "Food for Thought: Some Reflections on Personal and Tamil Literary Engagement with Food and Life" as part of the Conflict and Food Study Group's FemFood Talks. Her collection A Kitchen in the Corner of the House was published this fall. Dr. C. S. Lakshmi is an independent researcher in Women's Studies. She is a prolific Tamil writer of fiction under the pen name Ambai. Her stories have been translated in five volumes: A Purple…