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  episode 15 video Chirasree Bose is a passionate writer with a fanatic zeal to make a difference through her words. Her first book ‘Done With Her…’ released in Feb 2019 and has grabbed remarkable positions in the top books list on Amazon a number of times. Her latest bestselling book ‘Mrs. Basu’s Uncensored Familism’ is of the genre ‘drama and humor’, which has won the hearts of readers across the country through its clever jabs at societal norms. Her third book, a thriller called 'There's Blood on Your Heart' has just released and is available in all leading online stores. Chirasree started her career back in 2012 as a software engineer and in due course, realized her passion for writing. She worked as an editor and writer with various writing platforms and continues to expand the horizon of her skills with diverse forms of writing. website- https://www.chirasreebose.com/

  episode 14 Kritika Sehgal Kritika is an award-winning author, a digital content creator and a screenwriter. A national Chess player turned writer, Kritika started writing pre-teens. At the age of 12, she wrote poems for a Hindi monthly magazine, Vanita and has followed her passion ever since. She has penned down the television shows such as Khichdi 2, Partners and many more and is now all set to write for OTT platforms. Her published titles include 'The Best Version of Me' and 'Perspective'. You can reach out to her on her social media profiles, Facebook- @KritikaSehgal.Official Twitter- @Kritika22Sehgal Instagram- @Kritika.creationofstars Snapchat- @thecreationist7 video

 episode 13 video Abdullah Khan bdullah Khan is an Indian novelist, screenwriter, literary critic and banker. Born in a village near Motihari, Bihar, Abdullah was initially educated in madarsa (Islamic seminary) and Urdu medium school. In the mid-1990s, he discovered that George Orwell was born in Motihari. And, this Orwell’s connection with his home district drew him towards literature. Abdullah’s writings have appeared in Brooklyn Rail (New York), Wasafiri (London), The Hindu (India), The Daily Star (Bangladesh) and Friday Times (Pakistan) among others. His debut film as a screenwriter, Viraam, was released in the theatres in 2017. His first novel Patna Blues is being translated into many languages including Persian, Hindi, Urdu, Kannada, Telugu, Marathi, Malayalam, Bangla and Tamil.

  episode 12 video SWAPNA PERI A passionate book reviewer, writer, narrator, translator and copy editor, Swapna has a B. Tech in Computer Science and is a former SAP Technical Consultant. She is the writer, narrator, editor and translator for three books published with Literoma Publishing, Kolkata. She created and manages the “Book Reviews Café” official blog and Facebook page that contains all the book reviews. Swapna is also a content writer and reviewer with Storizen Magazine,CriticSpace Journals website, The Literature Times website, The Asian Review website and the Literature Today website. She is a member of various book clubs and is a regular book reviewer. She is a columnist with one of the leading women's websites in Telugu named 'Vihanga'.

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 Episode 10 Video Guest Bio: Amaruvi Devanathan is banker by day and blogger by night. Runs a bilingual blog on literature and social situations.  While not working for his employer, he reads and writes and the process has resulted in the following books. பழைய கணக்கு  a collection of short stories with a common thread – Justice. Monday is not Tuesday  – details the 80s 90s South Indian Childhood. நான் இராமானுசன்  –  a first person narration by 10th century  Hindu reformer  Ramanujacharya on what he did and why he did what he did. Singapore Diary  –  experiences with Singapore’s taxi drivers. நெய்வேலிக் கதைகள்  – an idyllic life of the 70s and 80s. You can connect with him in the following ways : Email :    amaruvi@gmail.com Facebook :  http://facebook.com/theamaruvi Twitter :  http://twitter.com/amaruvi

 Episode  9 VIDEO Sougand Akbarian is a young Iranian translator and author. She is a bestselling translator in Iran of Indian literature into Farsi (Persian). She has been to India many times and especially to Delhi as a traveler and interpreter, that is the reason she decided to write her travelogue in English language based on her Delhi travel as SouganDilli which also made her the bestseller author as well. Sougand is also a researcher and scholar in Translation Studies and she already presented and published her papers and articles in national and international conferences in Iran and India. She is TEDx speaker as well. Sougand is currently based in Iran. She has completed her Masters in English Language, Translation Studies. reach out to Instagram- @Sougand_Akbarian Her books are available on- https://www.amazon.in/SouganDilli-Sougand-Akbarian/dp/8194464897