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Tejaswini Niranjana (born 26 July 1958) is an Indian professor, cultural theorist, translator and author.

She is best known for her contribution to the fields of culture studies, gender studies, translation, and ethnomusicology (particularly relating to different forms of Indian music). She is the daughter of Kannada playwright and novelist Niranjana and writer Anupama Niranjana.

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Her partner is Indian author and cultural theorist, Ashish Rajadhyaksha.^{[citation needed]}

In 2021, Tejaswini Niranjana was awarded the American Literary Translators Association Prize for Prose Fiction Translation for No Presents Please, a translation of author Jayant Kaikini's short stories centred around the city of Mumbai.

In 2019, No Presents Please was awarded the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2018, which Niranjana shared jointly with Jayant Kaikini.

She is the recipient of the 2018 Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship, Research