Veena Rao is an award-winning Indian-American journalist and author. Purple Lotus, her debut novel, is a 2021 American Fiction Award winner, a 2021 Georgia Author of the Year finalist, and an award-winning finalist in the multicultural and women’s fiction categories of the 2021 International Book Awards. She is the founding editor of NRI Pulse, an Atlanta-based news publication. She has been recognized by The Limca Book of Records (the Indian version of the Guinness Book of Records) as the first Indian woman to edit and publish a newspaper outside India. When she is not writing or meeting press deadlines, you will find her meditating or gardening. To find out more about Veena, visit her website www.veenaspulse.com.
episode 10 Radhika Iyengar is the author of her debut book, ‘Fire on the Ganges: Life Among the Dead in Banaras’. She’s a graduate of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York. Radhika won the Red Ink award for Excellence in Indian Journalism (2018), and has been a recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship, the Sanskriti Prabha Dutt Fellowship and Sangam House Residency. video

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