“I think women writing has now peaked with voices of different kind echoing across the world.”- Asha Iyer Kumar (Indian Author)
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Team Kitaab is in conversation with Indian author Asha Iyer Kumar as a part of the South Asian Women Writers Feature.
For the whole of March, we will be featuring South Asian Women Writers on Kitaab for the whole of March. You can read the editor’s note to know more about this.
Today we are featuring Dubai-based author, Life-Writing Coach and youth Motivational Speaker, Asha Iyer Kumar. She writes for Khaleej Times and is a top blogger on popular Indian sites. Her writings are steeped in emotion, empathy and wisdom and her stories have an overarching theme of life’s poignancy.
Asha was born in Madras, India and was brought up in Kerala. She graduated in English Literature and did her master’s in journalism from the University of Kerala. Her first novel, Sandstorms, Summer Rains came out in 2009 and she has published four more books and an e-book since then – three collections of short stories, a collection of poetry and a compilation of her columns written for UAE’s popular daily Khaleej Times, in her solo non-fiction title.
As an author, children’s writing coach, and youth motivational speaker, Asha aims to use the power of story writing to relate to and understand the world around her and transform young people’s lives by helping them recognize the subtle and sublime aspects of life through the written word. It has also taken her on an inward journey, giving reflections of the unknown quarters within her.
