Meena Prabhu

Meena Sudhakar Prabhu was an Indian writer and former anaesthesiologist, best remembered for her travelogues in Marathi of the United Kingdom, Iran, Egypt, China, Turkey, and Mexico. A graduate of B. J. Medical College in Mumbai, she was the recipient of a D. B. Mokashi Award in 2010, a G. N. Dandekar Memorial Mrunmayi Award in 2011, an N. C. Kelkar Award in 2012, and a Maharashtra Bhushan in 2023. She pursued a career in medicine and completed her MBBS from B. J. Medical College in Pune, followed by further postgraduate medical training in Mumbai and later in London. After marriage, she settled in the United Kingdom, where she worked for nearly two decades as an anaesthesiologist and general medical practitioner. Despite her demanding medical profession, her passion for writing and travel continued to grow, and she began documenting her international journeys in Marathi, a language in which travel literature was still developing as a mainstream genre. Her first major travelogue, “Maza London,” gained wide popularity and established her as a fresh and engaging literary voice. Over the years, she travelled extensively across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas, transform

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