LOL- love of literature - guests inspire Aspiring Authors

  episode 26 video Guest Bio- Lata Gwalani Lata is a narrator of human experiences and spends time pondering the how and why of relationships. She has X-ray vision into human psyche, and deduces more than what meets the eye, and is usually wrong. She is wary of people and is highly impressed with Noah for allowing only animals on his ark. She has authored two books – Incognito and Prisoners of Secrets. Her third book was released in January 2022 and has been winning readers since. She has been a corporate trainer for over two decades, specialising in Leadership through Emotional Intelligence. She has done considerable and pioneering work with women in this context.

episode 25 video Guest Bio- Abha Iyengar Abha is a British Council certified creative writing mentor. She is an award-winning, internationally published poet, author, editor and translator. Abha has been a writer-in-residence at the Sangam House Residency and received the Lavanya Sankaran Writing Fellowship for 2009-2010. Her short fiction, The Marshlands, was shortlisted in the DNA-Out of Print short story contest (2015). Abha's poems have appeared in the Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poets and her fiction in The Indo-Australian Anthology of Short Fiction. Her story, The High Stool, was nominated for the prestigious, Million Writers Award. Her published works include Yearnings, Flash Bites, Shrayan, Many Fish to Fry and The Gourd Seller and Other Stories. She has co-edited an anthology titled The Other, which is a collection of 33 stories by several authors on this theme. Abha holds Creative Writing Workshops, edits fiction manuscripts and personally mentors aspiring writers. S

 episode 24 video Guest Bio- Tanushree Podder A hundred travel tales, 15 novels, and a bagful of dreams – that’s Tanushree Podder. An adventurous soul, she has dabbled in multiple genres like historical, military, crime, romance and paranormal. Two of her books, Boots Belts Berets and The Girls in Green, are soon to be adapted into web series.