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Aparna Jain

Aparna Jain is India’s first certified Integral Master Coach,marketing consultant, feminist and an author. Aparna Jain spent her growing up years studying in Bengaluru before moving to Switzerland where she studied at the Alpina School of Hotel Management and received a Diploma with a double specialization in Sales & Marketing and Food & Beverage. She pursued a post graduate programme in Hospitality at the Oberoi School of Hotel Management and worked with leading business and media houses.Jain founded Zebraa Works, a boutique integral leadership coaching and immersive consulting firm that offers customized leadership coaching using the Integral Coaching methodology. She is passionate about championing women leaders in the workplace and empowering them to overcome women challenges. Literature enthusiast Simi Gupta moderated the enthralling session of An Author’s Afternoon in Kolkata with Aparna Jain.

Sharbari Zohra Ahmed

The 75th session of An Author’s Afternoon was a storytelling session of a young girl in pre-independent Calcutta. The story revolved around Bangladeshi Author Sharbari Zohra Ahmed’s book “Dust Under her Feet”. She was in conversation with Esha Chatterjee. The protagonist of her book, Yasmine, a heartthrob of city’s nightclub scene seizes a lifetime opportunity when the US sets up a large army base in Burma to fight the Japanese during the 40s.

Christopher C Doyle

The 74th session of An Author’s Afternoon with Christopher C Doyle opened up a world of fantasy and mythology which forms the core of his novels. A large number of young guests in the audience lapped it up.

Madhavi Menon

The 73rd session of An Author’s Afternoon with Madhavi Menon transported the audience to a different realm of gods, goddesses, mythology, tantra, sufism and so on – as reflected in her book Infinite Variety: A history of desire in India.

Sudha Menon

An Author’s Afternoon was taken by a storm on 19th September 2019 by the author of ‘Feisty at Fifty’, Sudha Menon, who bowled over her audience with her unpretentious, folksy disposition. Sudha Menon had everyone eating out of her hand from the moment the session commenced and she lodged into various episodes of this phase in her life. The ladies were all ears for her to share the woeful and not so woeful state of affairs of the much apprehended 50’s. Sudha was in conversation with Kolkata’s Ehsaas woman Esha Dutta who was already drooling over the book.

Sandeep Bhushan

The 71st AAA with veteran journalist Sandeep Bhushan was a telling account of the evolution of news media in India. Through a hard, unbiased look into his own profession, he recounted the genesis and stranglehold of state-owned Doordarshan to the influx of private news agencies in the post liberalisation era.

Rashmi Bansal

Motivational speaker Rashmi Bansal shared some inspiring life-stories about entrepreneurship with the guest audience at the 70th session of An Authors Afternoon. Conversationalist, Hari Subramanium, helped the listeners to get at the very heart of Bansal’s book “Shine Bright” discussed at length.

Bhaavna Arora

The young, sparkling author of three best sellers – ‘The Deliberate Sinner’, ‘Mistress of Honour’, ‘Love Bi the Way’ enthralled the audience at the 69th AAA. The latest book “Undaunted” was at the centre of discussion. This book, considered a tribute to Lieutenant Ummer Fayaz, who was in the hit list of Indian Mujahidin, was brutally murdered by the terrorists.

Seema Goswami

Reputed journalist duo and clandestine couple, Seema Goswami and Vir Sanghvi, were candid at the 68th session of An Author’s Afternoon when they talked about Indian politics pickled with wit and humour. The tete-a-tete began on an informal romantic note on how Kolkata and Taj Bengal played a key role as their relationship came of age.

Ashutosh

The audience at the 67th Author’s Afternoon in this election season got a high dose of politics and ideological narrative from journalist-turned-politician guest author Ashutosh. Not that it was unexpected since his book “Hindu Rashtra” is a telling account of changes sweeping across India seen from the eyes of a journalist with political leanings. Ashutosh took 48 hours to quit his 23-year-old job as a journalist to join the Aam Aadmi Party in 2013. He quit politics and his party in 2016 since “it lacked moral capital”.