episode




Alka Joshi is the internationally bestselling author of the Jaipur Trilogy: The Henna Artist, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur and The Perfumist of Paris. Her debut novel, The Henna Artist, immediately became a New York Times Bestseller, a Reese Witherspoon Pick and was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. It has been translated into 29 languages and is currently in development at Netflix as a tv series. Joshi was born in India and came to the U.S. with her family at the age of nine. She has a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from California College of Arts. 


video


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Image
 episode  3 video Part 1 Part 2 Dr. Aparna Salvi Nagda is a consulting homeopath by profession and writer by passion. She earns her bread and butter through medical practice in Mumbai. Her short stories have won a place in around ten anthologies, while her blogs have found a home on websites like Mompresso, Youth Ki Awaz, The She Saga, WomensWeb and also the The Times Of India Readers blog. The Labyrinth Of Silence is her first full-length novel published by Vishwakarma Publications. Previously, she has self-published a novella called Not So Grave on Kindle and also has been a part of a short story collection La Javvaab Pizza published by Vishwakarma Publications.  She wishes to write till the last drop of ink in her pen and her last breath.
Read more
Image
  episode 2 video PART 1 PART 2 Sreya Sarkar is a public policy analyst, journalist, and author. She did her undergraduate studies in Political Science at Kolkata’s Presidency College and post-graduation from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. After a short stint in The Times of India and as a college lecturer in Kolkata, she set off to the US for her second Master’s in Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She worked in public policy research and advocacy in U.S. think tanks and non-profits such as Cascade Policy Institute and Heartland Institute before turning into a freelance writer with her fingers dipped in multiple fiction and non-fiction projects. She contributes political and social articles for Indian and U.S. news magazines like The Wire, Scroll, Karvaan India, and American Kahani. She writes columns on Indian American issues for The Quint and Dainik Bhaskar. Her short stories have been published in Indian literary magazines including...
Read more