LoL (Love of Literature)

Guest Bio- Sangeetha Vallat

Sangeetha Vallat, a former railway employee, passionateabout books, travel, friends and conversations is a people watcher and a seekerof stories. Platform Ticket (Penguin) her debut nonfiction memoir, chronicledher ticketing days in Railways. She followed this with Extraordinary Lifeof a Helicopter Pilot (Sabre and Quill) a biography of a decorated warveteran of the 1971 Liberation War.  Ms Vallat currently resides in Dubai,working on a Middle East memoir. 

Website- https://sangeethavallat.com/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/sangeethavallat/?hl=en

Guest Bio: Januli Bandara

Januli Bandara is the founder of The LiteraryLounge (a book club) and The Literary Gazette (a literary and artsmagazine). She works as an SEO content writer for Australian clients whilemanaging monthly book club events, and spends her free time reading, drawing,working out, and staying active with her favorite playlists.

Instagram: theliterarylounge.sl

Guest bio: Eric Tinsay Valles

Eric Tinsay VALLES has published the poetry collections A World in Transit and After the Fall: dirges among ruins in English and Spanish translation as well as co-edited Get Lucky: An Anthology of Singapore and Philippine Writings, Sg Poems 2015-2016, Anima Methodi, The Nature of Poetry, The Atelier of Healing, A Given Grace and Finding God in All Things. He has won a Goh Sin Tub Creative Writing prize as well as the Illumination, ELit and Catholic Media Book Awards. He has been invited to read poetry or commentaries at Baylor, Melbourne and Oxford Universities. He is a director of Poetry Festival (Singapore).

Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/eric.valles1/

Website- https://www.poetry.sg/

Guest bio:

Sachinthani Ketakumbura is the Editor-in-Chief of The Literary Gazette. She is currently a third-year student at the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, studying International Studies. She has experience in editing, content writing, and journalism through her previous work. Apart from the magazine, she is also the Co-Founder and Co-President of Poe3LK, a growing poetry network based in Sri Lanka. She is actively involved in various other creative and community initiatives as well. 
Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/theliterarygazette.sl/

Website- https://www.tllsl.org/

Author Bio- Aparna Salvi Nagda

Pen or pill? Prescription or description? Caught in her own web, Dr. Aparna Salvi Nagda is a Homoepathic Consultant by day earning her bread and butter through a medical practice in Mumbai. Yet, she yearns for a living with liberal writing and expressing herself through the Word. Finding solace in books both academic and fiction, Aparna is also a teacher by passion, enthralling her students with quirky biology lessons, half of which she reproduces from class to class, generation to generation. Of all her passions, being married is the best one. Marriage has also blessed her with an amazing, encouraging family who make the passion of living worthwhile. Her husband, a doctor by profession and her best buddy, pushes her from the kitchen to the writing desk so that he finds solace from the crackling pots and thudding pans.

Aparna is hopeful that the twilight years will be nothing less than passionate extravaganzas of writing expeditions.

Author Bio- Sreya Sarkar

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 Indian Ruminations, Indus Women Writing, and The Space Ink.

Sreya is a keen observer of Indian politics and speaks in political and social talk shows and seminars organized by universities and think tanks such as the Observer Research Foundation, Center for Adivasi Research and Development, and Ambedkar Center for Social and Cultural Studies.

Originally hailing from Kolkata, she spent her childhood in a civil service family surrounded by voracious readers and fervent political discussions, Sreya nurtured a wish to write from an early age. Sreya currently lives in Sudbury, Massachusetts with her spouse and teenage son, and when she is not writing you will find her in the kitchen cooking up a spicy curry to fight New England’s icy winters. She enjoys recreating traditional Bengali delicacies using locally grown vegetables and inviting friends over for hearty meals.

Guest Bio-

Chyrel J. Jackson and Lyris D. Wallace are Literary visionaries and two-time #1 Ranked

Best Selling Amazon Authors. Reared and raised in the South Suburbs outside

Chicago. African American Literature influenced their writing and is one of their favorite

genres. Both writers write in the spirit of their past great Literary ancestors. Chyrel and

Lyris both were Pushcart Nominees in 2021-Poem Love Unspoken, Heartbeats

Anthology and 2023, Poem- No Justice for Breonna, Published in Social Justice Inks

Anthology.

This edgy writing duo is featured in numerous poetry anthologies, Literary Journals, and

International Global Magazines.

Chyrel and Lyris have published SistersRoc’N’Rhyme Presents Poems in the Key of

Life, Mirrored Images and Different Sides of the Same Coin.

You will find them always writing. Creating written legacies one book at a time.

These two writers have found their voice and can be found on Sistersrocnrhyme.com.

Guest Bio- Alka Joshi

Guest Bio- Joy Mast

Guest Bio- Radhika Iyengar