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Anuja Chandramouli

Part-time writer, full-time mommy, eternal dreamer. That’s me!

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Three things people don’t know about you?

I would give anything to be able to go back in time and meet Alexander, Julius Caesar, Richard Burton, Lord Byron, Oscar Wilde, Agatha Christie, Mahatma Gandhi… I used to be terrified of dogs but am over it now and currently live with two Labs and a Rottweiler. I can do a head stand!

What’s your greatest fear?

Finding myself trapped in a cage with no way out.

What is your greatest achievement?

Hopefully I achieve something great worth bragging about in the near future

Which living person do you most admire?

Rafael Nadal

Who is your favorite fictional hero?

Hercule Poirot

Who is your favorite fictional villain?

Count Dracula

Who are your favorite authors?

Agatha Christie, Thomas Hardy, Bill Watterson, Enid Blyton, Veda Vyasa, George RR Martin

What are your 5 favorite books of all time?

Mahabharatha by Veda Vyasa, A Song of Fire and Ice by George RR Martin and Little Women and Good Wives by Louis May Alcott

Is there a book you love to reread?

I tend to reread Agatha Christie, Wilbur Smith, Jeffrey Archer, and Terry Brooks.

One Superpower you wish you had?

Eat whatever I feel like without burgeoning out of all proportion

Which book you wish you had written ?

I wish to write THE BOOK that wins me the Booker Prize and makes me a shoo in for the Noble Prize for Literature

When and where do you write ?

In a quiet corner in my home.

Silence or music?

Music! I highly recommend Paganini, Beethoven, Mozart, and Ilaiyaraja.

One phrase that you use most often?

Damn it! Jackass!

Do you have a writing ritual / superstition?

Yeah I have my rituals but it is best I leave it at that. Can’t have people knowing I am nuts right?

What’s your guilty reading pleasure?

Anything with blood, gore, horror and psychopathic serial killers! Bring on the mayhem I say!

Do you have one sentence of advice for new writers?

Read as much as you can and make the time to write.

Anuja Chandramouli is a full-time mother of two lovely girls, as well as a part-time writer. Her academic credentials include a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and a Master's in English. Having started out as a freelance writer with articles published in Women's Era, Lonely Planet and The Hindu, she currently works as an e-reporter and columnist. Anuja is a self-confessed, big-dreamer, who is driven by an inner passion for contributing her mite to the great pool of human endeavour, thought, and wisdom. An ardent admirer of Veda Vyasa's Mahabharata, Anuja holds the Great Epic to be one of a kind, the Homers and Virgils of the world notwithstanding. Drawing her creative inspiration from the epic's timeless track record of sustenance through centuries of retelling, Anuja chose to debut as a storyteller with the immortal and eternally captivating saga of Arjuna, the non-pareil hero. Putting together episodes from Arjuna's life (some well-known, others relatively obscure), gleaned from years of painstaking research and then presented in a seamless narrative with the uninhibited panache and style of a 21st-century writer, has been an immensely satisfying and self-actualizing endeavour for this New Age Indian classicist.

Achievements

She has written 11 books and is considered one of the finest writers in mythology, historical fiction and fantasy. Her highly appreciated debut novel, Arjuna: Saga of a Pandava Warrior-Prince, was named as one of the top 5 sellers in the Indian writing category for the year 2012 by Amazon India. An acclaimed Tedx speaker and widely read columnist for The New Indian Express, her articles, short stories and book reviews appear in various publications. She is the winner of the prestigious popular choice AutHer award for the year 2021. Her much loved Mahabharata and Ramayana with Anuja storytelling series is now available on YouTube, Spotify, TuneIn Alexa, Apple Podcasts. She is also a trained Bharatanatyam dancer.

Why Anuja Chandramouli?

Anuja’s language skills, wildly creative mindset and passionate outlook makes her ideally suited to speak on diverse subjects ranging from mythology and creativity to leadership skills and empowerment. Her sessions are always tailored to meet the precise requirements of her target audience. Having spoken at hundreds of events on national and international platforms to widespread approbation, she is the perfect choice to help you script your very own success story.

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Debashis Biswas

With more than 15 years of experience in book sales and distribution, Debashis currently oversees Leadstart’s business activities in eastern India and neighbouring countries. He has previously worked with several leading book publishers and distributors.

Walid Jalal

Walid has 7 years experience in online listing & marketing Working in SEO firm & Publishing sector. He worked in a Restaurant as a Manager in Sharjah for two years. He loves cricket & cooking.

Jayati Sarkar

Jayati has been into literature studies and has pursued her Mphil in Australian Aboriginal Poetry from the University of Calcutta. She is an avid reader and her love for books has brought her to the field of Publishing. For years she has explored the other side of the book as a reader and now she works with Leadstart as the Senior Executive in the Editorial Department. Her work profile includes working closely with Authors, managing the projects from end to end and also working with national and international publishers for management of Secondary Rights.

Ashwini Jadhav

Ashwini has about a decade’s experience in design. She is a Master of Commercial Art, who has worked in the publishing and advertising sectors as a visualiser & designer. She was judged as the third best in the state, when she finished her foundation course in applied art. She is a practicing calligrapher in Modi Lipi (a script in the Marathi language) and is a Rangoli artist who has won several accolades in those domains. During the popular Ganesh Chaturthi festival, several idols of Ganesha in varying sizes get made, one the most important finishing touches to the idol is that of painting the eyes, which Ashwini has practiced to perfection and does it for hundreds of idols every year. In addition to the above, she is also a trained classical dancer, a national level Kabaddi player and loves cooking.

Ananya Subramanian

Graduation in journalism and love for books, led Ananya to take up a career in publishing. With her experience in the field, she has come to believe more and more in the power of stories and the people who tell them. She is a vegan and an animal-lover; and loves to dance, tend to her pet plants and often find solace in solo travelling.

T. Vijay Kumar

Vijay has over a decade’s experience in supply chain management working in India and the Middle East. He heads the production, supply chain and receivables management for Leadstart. Prior to his current role at Leadstart, Vijay worked in inventory management for five years, in Abu Dhabi.

Iftikar Shaikh

Iftikar has a decade & half years of experience across publishing and the banking sectors in the finance domain. He enjoys working on numbers and loves uncovering stories that the numbers tell. A fitness enthusiast, he loves trekking and travelling.

Maneesha Arun

Maneesha has an experience of over two decades in the content industry spanning over publishing, media and secondary rights business domains. She has a deep interest in psychology.

Mahendra Rawat

With more than a decade’s experience in book sales and distribution, Mahendra comes from a family immersed in the book trade. He worked with several book distributors and publishers before his current assignment with Leadstart.

RAJESH KRISHNAN

With more than 15 years of experience in book sales and distribution, Debashis currently oversees Leadstart’s business activities in eastern India and neighbouring countries. He has previously worked with several leading book publishers and distributors.

Rajesh Krishnan

Rajesh comes with over 3 decades of experience spread over various business domains. He oversees Leadstart’s business development & sales across southern & western India, Sri Lanka and Middle-East. His hobbies include dancing, trekking and travelling

Pooja Dutt

Pooja has over a decade’s experience in operations, sales and people management in various business domains. She loves to interact with authors and helps them meet their publishing goals. She is fond of travelling & cooking.

Bhavika Bharambe

After completing her MBA in marketing, Bhavika has focused on roles that helped her to become an experienced marketing professional today. She has worked for brands from various industries; Educational, Tourism, Retail, Entertainment, Airlines, Banking and more. She loves to spend her time by reading books and listening to music.

Naina Solanki

Naina leads the project management and author support functions at Leadstart Publishing. She is fond of being abreast of the latest developments in technology and is a keen learner of the six sigma methodology. She loves reading and travelling.

Preeti Chib

Preeti has a decade’s experience in brand and communication management with most influential and innovative media companies. She is passionate about building brands by translating consumer insights into product innovations and campaigns. She is a compulsive reader and considers a day gone without some bit of reading a day wasted. She loves reading stories to her children every night. A lover of visual art, to delve a bit deeper into the same, she took up formal training for design as well.

Malini Nair

Malini is passionate about Literature and Business Management. After her MBA (Marketing) from St. Xavier’s, she took up roles that involved sales, marketing, costing, MIS etc. in multiple sectors like Banking, Insurance, E-broking, and even the Steel industry. Eventually, her passion for languages and books compelled her to re-route her career to literature. This led to a career break and a Masters Degree in English Literature; post which she took up a role at Wordit CDE & Leadstart, enabling her to work towards both her passions.

Chandralekha Maitra

With two decades of experience as a book publishing professional, Chandralekha began her career as a features writer and columnist, working with publications across India, before moving into book publishing full time, with India Book House. She received her training in editorial title management from Book House, London. Over the years she has worked with some of the finest publishing houses in India and overseas, and across genres and markets. She has also worked with Osian’s-Connoisseurs of Art, India’s first auction house, gaining in-depth exposure to research and publishing in the fine arts-antiquities-cultural heritage genres. Additionally she has had a parallel, specialist career in Human Resources, working at Group HR, Tata Group, among others. She continues to write, train and mentor in this domain as her publishing commitments allow.

Raj Supe

Aka Kinkar Vishwashreyananda, Raj Supe is a poet, storyteller and novelist, as well as a seeker and devotee of Sri Sitaramdas Omkarnath. An MBA by education, his career spanned advertising, research and creative consulting, before devoting his time to literature and spirituality. His works include Three No Trumps (novel), Sagarika Anusagarika [Echoes of Nine Rivers] (poetry), Pilgrim of the Sky (spiritual memoir), and translations of religious texts such as Cloudburst of A Thousand Suns and Jai Jai Ram Krishna Hari. He has also worked on film scripts with Ram Gopal Verma and Ashutosh Gowariker, and on plays with Makarand Deshpande.

Dr. Rabindra Kumar Nanda

An alumnus of IIT Kanpur, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and Stanford University, Dr Nanda is also a National Science Talent Search Scholar. He holds five Patents and is a published author of 50 national and 52 international research papers.

Swarup Nanda

Swarup has over a decade and half’s experience in multiple business domains related to content. Prior to his entrepreneurial ventures, he has worked with a couple of MNCs in the media space. His passion for literature and books is his motivation for building Leadstart.