I gave a talk on India Helps at the Zeitgeist Conference at St Xavier’s last Saturday. Will write more about that experience later, but suffice to say the levels of professionalism and organisation that these students showed knocked my socks off, holes and all.
The best thing of driving all the way into town, with the strong, silent spouse by my side and the strong but not so silent brat with us to, was this picture shot by Roycin DSouza who was a co-panelist on the talk on Social Media Going Offline discussion. He, if you don’t know already, is doing this Twitter A Day calendar, where he shots twitter personalities, one a day.
Here’s my shot.
It has my book and my boy. And yes, that is why it is so precious to me.
About Kiran Manral
Kiran Manral is a writer and major social media influencer. After quitting her full-time journalist’s job when her son was born, Kiran became a mommy blogger on the internet, with a remarkably original voice. She was a journalist at The Asian Age, The Times of India, features editor Cosmopolitan, India Cultural Lead and Trend spotter at Gartner Iconoculture US, Senior Consultant at Vector Insights, Ideas Editor, SheThePeople.TV. Kiran is currently a celebrated author and an independent research and media consultant.
She was shortlisted for the Femina Women Awards for Literary Contribution in 2017. The Indian Council of UN Relations (ICUNR) supported by the Ministry of Women and Children, Govt of India, awarded her the International Women’s Day Award 2018 for excellence in the field of writing. In 2021 she was awarded the Womennovator 1000 Women of Asia award. In 2022, she was named amongst the 75 Iconic Indian women in STEAM by Red Dot Foundation and Beyond Black, in collaboration with the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor, Government of India, and British High Commission, New Delhi.
Her novella, Saving Maya, was long-listed for the 2018 Saboteur Award, supported by the Arts Council of England in the UK. Her novels 'The Face At the Window’ and ‘Missing, Presumed Dead were both long-listed for Jio MAMI Word to Screen, and ‘The Face at the Window’ was showcased at the South Asian Film Festival 2019. The Kitty Party Murder was shortlisted for the Popular Choice award at the 2021 JK Papers TOI AutHER awards.
Her other books include The Reluctant Detective, Once Upon A Crush, All Aboard, Karmic Kids-The Story of Parenting Nobody Told You, A Boy’s Guide to Growing Up, True Love Stories, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Parenting, Raising Kids with Hope and Wonder in Times of a Pandemic and Climate Change, More Things in Heaven and Earth and Rising: 30 Women Who Changed India. She also has published short stories in various magazines, in acclaimed anthologies like Have A Safe Journey, Boo, The Best Asian Speculative Fiction 2018, Grandpa’s Tales, Magical Women and City of Screams. Kiran lives in Mumbai with her family.
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Fortytwoandcounting 
Hi Kiran,
I came to know from IHM ( Seema ) from Delhi that a meet is being organised by your newly released book’s Publisher on 4th Feb in Delhi. she asked me if i would be interested to join and i said i’d love to!
I believe i need an invite for this. So sending you my Email:
aabhamidha@gmall.com
My blog is DAFFODILS at http://www.smilewidabha.com
Do check it out. Lookforward to meeting you 🙂
Aabha
Was great to meet you Aabha.
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loved the pic:-) absolutely loved it.
Danke darlink.
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What MiM said.
🙂
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Yay IH!! And ahem: it’s *Xavier’s*. ‘Nuff said. 😉
Ye olde Alma Mater?
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Congratulations on the book and lovely picture. I look forward to reading it when I can get my hands on it.
Thank you!
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One mor time ms.Manral says she’s ovrweight n bulging n wat nt…the blog world shud sue her…. u luk lovely Kiran n also tht li’l fellow behind the pillar…
j’s mom
LOL, that’s misleading advertising you know, camera lens and angle and my angle all play a part.
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Hi Kiran, I was reading your blogposts for almost a week now on the android which wouldn’t show me any pictures.Your writing style kept me hooked.Finally saw your pictures on the notebook.One word..WOW! thu tho badi natak rani nikhli.
Want to apologize for flicking few of your words in my blog,couldn’t help it.Been reading your posts a lot and the words like spawn keep floating in my mind.Hope you dont mind.Thanks for inspiring me in many many ways.I have started blogging again.
All the very best to you.I hope you have started work on the second book.
Tkcare..and God Bless.
Shoba
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