Mira T. Sundara Rajan is a writer and a classical pianist, and a scholar and professor who holds a doctorate in law from Oxford University.
A Canadian citizen by birth, she is fluent in English and French, has a working knowledge of other languages including Tamil, and has read extensively in all of these literatures under the guidance of her father, P.K. Sundara Rajan, an English scholar. Through her work, Mira has been privileged to gain extraordinary experience of the world. She has spoken, consulted, taught, published, and been featured in the media in diverse countries, including the United States and Canada, most Western and Eastern European countries, the UK, Russia, India, Japan, and Australia.
As a renowned expert in copyright law and a passionate advocate for authors, her “eloquent” scholarship (as expressed by Professor Jane Ginsburg) has been widely appreciated. In India, it has shaped the “moral rights” of authors, through the seminal precedent of Amar Nath Sehgal v. Union of India (Delhi High Court, 2005), and in reform of the Indian Copyright Act in 2012. Mira is fascinated by creativity, technology, and diversity in all their forms, and these are themes that unify her work across all of the disciplines that interest her.
Mira is a great-granddaughter of Indian National poet C. Subramania Bharati, and the daughter of pioneering Bharati scholar, S. Vijaya Bharati, who was also the poet’s granddaughter. She is the Editor of Bharati’s collected writings in the English language, The Coming Age, published by Penguin Modern Classics in commemoration of the poet’s 100th death anniversary on Sept. 11, 2021.