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I am an Associate of Trinity College London in Speech and Drama; Having been a quizzer in my youth inclines me to research the unusual and interesting to form the backgound of my tales; Creativity lies at my core: I write songs/compose music, design interiors/clothes, devise dishes/curate menus, host parties with a difference.
An overpopulated planet and its gamut of problems.
Thousands of ill and injured animals and birds obtaining refuge and care in two wards I donated to an animal shelter in my city.
Every day represents a higher point in life's learning curve than the one before.
The death in 2005 of my very gifted and brilliant mother still feels like a huge loss.
Sandra Isobel Kyle, my friend in New Zealand stands out for rare strength and compassion, singing songs to comfort animals during their last minutes on death row.
Black Beauty, the equine hero of Anna Sewell's classic book.
Wackford Squeers in Charles Dickens' "Nicholas Nickelby".
Sophocles, Shakespeare, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Feodor Dostoevsky, Conan Doyle, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'Neill, Richmal Crompton, Lucy M Montgomery,Rohinton Mistry, Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh, William Dalrymple, Carol J Adams
Siddhartha-Herman Hesse, Of Human Bondage-Somerset Maugham The Agony and the Ecstasy-Irving Stone The Raj Quartet( 4 books)- Paul Scott Freedom at Midnight- Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
Snow Country- Yasunari Kawabata
"Gone with the Wind", "Oliver!", "Evita", "A Passage to India", "Nicholas and Alexandra"
To invent feasible alternatives to all products that cause animal suffering.
"Departed the body, alive on bookshelves…"
Atlantis, Renaissance Italy, Elizabethan England
To make a mega-movie that entertains and educates.
"Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys
On a laptop, propped up by high slanting pillows in bed, whenever the wordsmith wants to hammer and strike.
Definitely music, which enjoys my engagement and often figures in my novels.
It feels like a shout-out from the universe when my cat clambers on me and purrs after I've done some challenging writing.
Cookbooks
Observe your world, in and out.
Giselle- Novelist, Speaker, Thinker, Entrepreneur, Songwriter, Designer, Tarot-reader, Activist for Animals, Family Person and Friend…
Giselle Mehta has Masters’ degrees in International Relations and English Literature. For 10 years, she was an officer in the Indian Revenue Service. Thereafter, she made the shift to personal independence and the stimulation of a creative life.
Her diverse interests and immersions shape her fiction. It reflects the passions and animations of an ever-evolving persona.
Her debut novel ‘Blossom Showers’ was on the bestseller list for fiction with the Landmark chain of bookstores in India in 2011.
‘Vectors in the Void’ is her second novel.
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