75-year-old Calcutta-born Gayatri Spivak earned her PhD in Comparative Literature at the US Cornell University. Spivak also received 11 honorary doctorates from the University of Toronto, University of London, Oberlin College, Universitat Rovira Virgili, Rabindra Bharati University, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, University of St Andrews, Université de Vincennes à Saint-Denis, Presidency University, Yale University, University of Ghana-Legon.

 In 2007, Dr Gayatri Spivak was made University Professor in the Humanities, the first woman of color ever to be awarded this highly prestigious position in Columbia’s 260 years history. She remains the only University Professor in the Humanities. SOURCE

Gilbakka salutes this brilliant Indian-American. I discovered her by chance yesterday while reading a book on Allende's Chile. Today September 11 marks 44 years since President Salvador Allende was killed in a military coup in Chile.