LOL- love of literature - guests inspire Aspiring Authors

 episode 1 video Ankush Bharti Ankush Bharti is the Chief Operations Officer of Writers' Kalam, India's latest knowledge-based education venture. Also, the Editor-in-Chief of The Holistic Pine, the independent monthly lifestyle international journal released by Writers' Kalam, Ms Bharti, keeps an open mind towards the possibilities of content creation in the new media. She is trained in content writing and content marketing. A writer with experience in the publishing industry, Ankush Bharti has coauthored several books. Previously, she worked as a content reviewer for a prominent organisation. She was also the co-founder of a content writing company. An avid reader, she spent hours of her time as a youngster in the libraries of Shimla. This experience proved crucial in providing her with the necessary material for the writer in her. Known as a prodigy since an early age, she has won many national and international competitions in writing. She writes fiction, nonfiction, poe...

 episode 24 video Rajni Mala Rajni Mala Khelawan is an Indo-Fijian Canadian writer and researcher. She has given numerous inspirational speeches and public readings in Canada and in the Fiji Islands. In addition to being a visiting writer at the University of South Pacific, Fiji Islands in 2011, Khelawan was profiled on hit TV and radio shows such as Bollywood Boulevard, CBC Radio, Omni News, NUTV, and Asian Magazine TV. She was the Writer-in-Residence at Fiji National University in 2014. Her short story “Bucket of Cherries” was a winning entry for New Asian Writing Journal; and "Still Standing" was published in The Voice Magazine. Khelawan's two novels are Kalyana (2016) and The End of the Dark and Stormy Night (2008). Her third novel In the Shade of a Bougainvillea Hedge is forthcoming. Khelawan holds a Master of Arts Degree from the University of Toronto. Her SSHRC-funded research entitled "Gender and Ritual among Fijian Hindu Women" studied gender and Hindui...