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#WomenWhoWrite: Authors You Should Read This Month

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Amplifying stories of courage and resilience, here are some of our authors who represent a rich diversity of voices across genres!

Read about them below and add their phenomenal books to your reading lists this #WomensHistoryMonth!

Buku Sarkar

Buku Sarkar is a writer and photographer whose work has appearedin various magazines and journals including NYRB, n+1, RaleighReview, Threepenny Review, The New York Times,Huffington Post and Mint Lounge. Her photographs have been exhibitedat ICP in New York, Art Basel,…

Buku Sarkar
Prerna Gill

Prerna Gill is a writer and editor. Her poems have appeared in Indian Literature, the Sahitya Akademi bimonthly journal, The Indian Quarterly, and in Gulzar's anthology A Poem a Day."

Prerna Gill
Namrata Poddar

NAMRATA PODDAR writes fiction and nonfiction, serves as Interviews Editor for Kweli where she curates the series on Race, Power, andStorytelling, and teaches literature as well as creative writing at the University of California, Los Angeles. She holds a PhD…

Namrata Poddar
Ilina Singh

Ilina writes books for young readers who like to think for themselves as they explore and understand their world. Her first book, The Gutsy Girls of Science, was written in partnership with UNESCO and told the stories of Indian women…

Ilina Singh
Lubaina Bandukwala

Lubaina Bandukwala has a Master's degree in Mass Communication from the University of Houston. Her words have been wandering through various writing genres including newspapers, magazines, television and documentaries, until they found a home in children's media products."

Lubaina Bandukwala
Adithi Rao

After a degree in Theater from Smith College, Massachusetts, Adithi Rao worked as an assistant director on the award-winning Hindi cult film Satya, and then as a writer / editor on the travel channel of Indya.com. Her short stories have…

Adithi Rao
Garima Kushwaha

Garima Kushwaha is a research scientist and has a PhD in Bioinformatics. Apart from this, she is interested in women empowerment in the context of Indian women. Garima has previously written for platforms like Youth Ki Awaaz and Women's Web…

Garima Kushwaha
Aarti Kelshikar

Aarti Kelshikar is the author of How India Works: Making Sense of a Complex Corporate Culture. She is an intercultural consultant and coach with over fifteen years of work experience in India, Singapore, and the Philippines. 

Aarti Kelshikar
Leeza Mangaldas

Leeza Mangaldas is India's foremost sex education content creator. She established her now immensely popular sex-ed platforms on YouTube and Instagram in 2017 as a passion project, alongside her work as a freelance journalist and TV presenter, hoping to help…

Leeza Mangaldas
Minita Sanghvi

Minita Sanghvi loves reading, writing and learning. She was a curious child and continues to seek answers to her ‘but why?' questions even today. She was born in Bombay and loves Bollywood movies and street foods. She's a professor at…

Minita Sanghvi
Riva Razdan

Riva Razdan is an author based in Mumbai. Her work has been featured in The Hindu Business Line, Grazia India and The Telegraph. Her debut novel, Arzu, was published by Hachette India in February 2021"

Riva Razdan
Anu Singh Choudhary

Anu Singh Choudhary, a celebrated author in Hindi, is also an accomplished screenwriter. Anu has written extensively across mediums: print, radio, TV, films and digital. She is also the author of the bestselling Hindi books Neela Scarf, Mamma Ki Diary and Bhali Ladkiyaan, Buri…

Anu Singh Choudhary
Anukrti Upadhyay

Anukrti Upadhyay writes fiction and poetry in both English and Hindi. Her Hindi works include a collection of short stories titled Japani Sarai (2019) and the novel Neena Aunty (2021). Among her English works are the twin novellas, Daura and…

Anukrti Upadhyay
Janice Pariat

Janice Pariat is the author of Boats on Land: A Collection of Short Stories, Seahorse: A Novel, and the international bestseller The Nine-Chambered Heart. She was the recipient of the Young Writer Award from the Sahitya Akademi and the Crossword…

Janice Pariat
Aanchal Malhotra

Aanchal Malhotra is a writer and oral historian from New Delhi. She is the co-founder of the Museum of Material Memory, and the author of two critically acclaimed and award-winning books, Remnants of a Separation and In the Language of…

Aanchal Malhotra
Shrayana Bhattacharya

Shrayana Bhattacharya trained in development economics at Delhi University and Harvard University. Since 2014, in her role as an economist at a multilateral development bank, she has focused on issues related to social policy and jobs. Prior to this, she…

Shrayana Bhattacharya
Nirupama Subramaniam

Nirupama Subramanian is the co-founder of GLOW, GrowingLeadership of Women, an organization that enables gender equality andinclusion. She is an ICF-trained Professional Certified Coach (P.C.C.) and aleadership development facilitator with over twenty-five years of experience.She has trained and coached over…

Nirupama Subramaniam
Sonu Bhasin

SONU BHASIN is one of the early women professionals in the corporate world. She has led various businesses in senior leadership positions during her career, including when she was a part of the TAS (Tata Administrative Service), ING Barings, Axis…

Sonu Bhasin
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning and bestselling author, poet, activist and teacher of writing. Her work has been published widely, in magazines and anthologies, and her books have been translated into twenty-nine languages. Several of her works have been…

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Anuradha Bhasin

Anuradha Bhasin has been a journalist for over three decades, and is executive editor of Kashmir Times, Jammu and Kashmir's oldest English daily. Her massive body of work on the Kashmir conflict, human rights and politics includes newspaper reports and…

Anuradha Bhasin
Seema Sirohi

Seema Sirohi is currently based in Washington as a senior journalist specializing in foreign policy. She received her master's degree in journalism from the University of Kansas, Lawrence, and studied sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. As a journalist,…

Seema Sirohi
VAASANTHI

VAASANTHI is a renowned author and journalist who writes in English and Tamil. She has been writing in Tamil for more than forty years and has published thirty novels, six short-story collections and four travelogues. Her books in English include…

VAASANTHI
Kubbra Sait

Kubbra Sait is an Indian actress best known for her performance in Netflix's Sacred Games. The other web series she has been part of include Illegal: Justice, Out of Order and The Verdict: State vs Nanavati. She has also starred…

Kubbra Sait
Tanvi Srivastava

Tanvi Srivastava is a writer of fiction and has published short stories both online and in print. She is also a travel entrepreneur specializing in African expeditions. Tanvi is married to Asha's grandson and lives in Bangalore with her two…

Tanvi Srivastava
Mani Rao

MANI RAO is the author of eleven poetry books including Sing to Me, Ghostmasters and Echolocation. Her books in translation from Sanskrit include Saundarya Lahari and Kalidasa for the 21st Century Reader. She did immersive fieldwork among tantric communities in…

Mani Rao
Sheela Tomy

Sheela Tomy is a novelist, short story writer and scriptwriter. Valli is her debut novel, for which she was awarded the Cherukad Award for Malayalam Literature in 2020. She is also the author of a short story collection, Melquíadesnte Pralayapusthakam…

Sheela Tomy
Priya Hajela

 Priya Hajela is a fiction writer who lives in Pune with her husband and two dogs. Writing is a second career for her. She graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College in Vermont in 2017. Prior to…

Priya Hajela
Anmol Malik

Anmol Malik studied Creative Writing from the University of Warwick, England. After working at Leo Burnett and UTV-Disney, she went on to lead the Script Department at Yash Raj Films. Author, singer and songwriter, she's really just a girl doing…

Anmol Malik
Manreet Sodhi Someshwar

Manreet Sodhi Someshwar is a bestsellingauthor of nine books, including the award-winning The Radiance of a ThousandSuns and the critically acclaimed The Long Walk Home. Hailed as ‘astar on the literary horizon' by Khushwant Singh and garnering endorsementsfrom Gulzar for…

Manreet Sodhi Someshwar
Namita Gokhale

Namita Gokhale is the author of twenty-one books including eleven works of fiction, and editor of numerous anthologies. Her acclaimed debut novel, Paro: Dreams of Passion, was published in 1984. Recent works of fiction include The Blind Matriarch, Jaipur Journals and…

Namita Gokhale

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