Sudha Menon

| MARKETER Sudha Menon â€" Author of the Month, March 2020 The first name that popped in my head for the ‘Author of the Month’ for March was Sudha Menon. Being Women’s Month, there was no different writer that fit the invoice more than her. Sudha Menon is the perfect embodiment of style meeting substance. She makes ambition, a quality seen as unwomanly, look bloody good. Her life is an affidavit to that truth. My tryst with Sudha Menon I was lucky to receive my very first award in writing from Sudha Menon in December 2017 at Mumbai. I listened to her in awe as she took middle stage, elegantly draped in a sober orange saree and purple blouse. She was allure, wit, and class personified. She sportingly took every question that got here her method with a smile on her face. There was Nancy Katyal in the crowd too who asked a question that day. Backstage, when I went over to Sudha Menon to greet her lest she exit, I pleasantly stunned me was pleasantly at how social and gracious she was for her stature. She readily agreed for an image as we exchanged nice courtesies. In reality, she prolonged the identical lending ear and beatific smile to everyone who came by to speak to her, or click a snap with her. She’s a individuals individual no doubt. I made a mental note of how one should behave when fame sits prettily on your shoulders â€" ‘Be like Sudha Menon!’ I went again house and googled about her. Soon, I read her e-book ‘Devi, Diva or She-satan: The smart career girl’s survival guide’, an unapologetic take on the profession lady and her ambitions. This guide inspired me to the core, as I headed again to the company world after a protracted sabbatical. The book also made me notice Sudha’s impeccable writing skills from her vocabulary, to analytical abilities to voice, and distinct type. I bought two of her books, ‘Gifted’ and ‘Feisty at Fifty’ consequently. Watch out for my evaluate of each these books within the coming days. About Sudha Menon Sudha Menon dons so many hats with panache. She’s ex- journalist, bestselling writer, columnist, speaker, writing coach, actor, and model. She started her career pursuing her childhood dream of changing into a journalist. She worked for over 20 years as a journalist at The Independent (Bennet Coleman), The Hindu Business Line (Kasturi & Sons Lt) and Mint ( HT Media), before deciding to comply with her different dream of authoring a e-book. She went on to write down five non-fiction bestsellers â€" Devi, Diva or She-Devil -The Smart Carer Woman’s Survival Guide, Leading Ladies: Women Who Inspire India, Legacy: Letters to their daughters from eminent Indian women and men, Gifted: inspirational stories of individuals with disabilities, and Feisty at Fifty. Sudha’s books have been translated into several Indian languages including Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, Bengali, Kannada, and Tamil. She is the founding father of “Telling Our Stories’, ‘Get Writing’ and WWW (Writing with Women). Sudha is a motivational speaker who has carried out numerous inspirational workshops and women’s management periods for various corporate homes (Capgemini India, Persistent Systems, BMC Software, and SAP India), academic establishments, and NGOs across the nation. She was a speaker at TEDxPune 2013 edition, CII, IiECON, and BITS, Pilani. You can watch Sudha Menon’s current ads for Renault, Dove, Ujjivan Bank amongst others and see for yourself at how pure she is in the acting and modelling division. SBI Life Insurance advert â€" ‘Apno ki #HimmatWaliSeeti’ campaign Sudha Menon lives in Pune along with her very supportive husband Prashant, who’s an IT professional and daughter, Nayantara, a renowned pastry chef from the prestigious Le Cirdon Bleu culinary school. Nayantara is the co-founding father of Parisserie India, Mumbai. Let’s hear from Sudha Menon herself all about writing. Did you all the time wish to turn out to be an author? Tell us about your creator journey. A. I never imagined my life would take a turn lik e that. I was just a painfully shy woman with no pals, and the extra lonely and forgotten I felt, the more I retreated into the pages of my books. My father was a guide lover, and our home was always filled with books of assorted genres. Somehow, somewhere, lost in the imaginary worlds I found inside books, I dreamed of someday having a book with my name on the jacket. I never advised anybody about the dream for fear I can be laughed at as a result of it was too audacious a dream for a girl like me. But look at the miracle that is life: I went on to turn out to be a journalist-a great one at that- and after 23 years in that occupation, I took the leap of faith ten years ago. It was an enormous risk, but then, the dream that I nurtured in secret could wait no longer inside me, and I can safely say that writing the 5 books that I have written since 2010 has given me more joy than anything else on this period. Do you suppose writing non-fiction is simpler or harder than writing fiction ? Why? A. I am not sure about this one, actually. Bringing to life the boring, warts, and moles elements of my life and making it fascinating, gripping, and empathetic was an enormous, large problem when I wrote about myself and my life as a lady of fifty-plus in Feisty At Fifty. I played with details a bit there, stretched it to make it relatable, and yet struggled to make it common so that everyone who read it got something from it. In each book that I have written- be it Legacy, Leading Ladies, Gifted or Devi, Diva or She Devil, the challenge has always been to take real life people, imperfect and flawed like all of us and make them into characters who we all will empathize with. But I love non-fiction, nothing gives me extra pleasure than listening to the tales of actual-life individuals and taking their stories to the remainder of the world. But having said that, I have immense admiration for fiction writers. I dream of sometime writing a novel or a collection of quick stories, however I am too stressed and undisciplined to get right down to the task with focus and willpower. Which guide of yours would you counsel to a reader who has lately discovered you and why? A. Legacy as a result of it is a lovely collection of letters from men and women that all of us admire to their daughters. I spend nearly a year tracking and interviewing Mr. Narayan Murthy, Prakash Padukone, Zia Mody, Renuka Ramnath, amongst others, and primarily based on their letters; I wrote letters to their daughters. The guide is bursting with the knowledge of contemporary-day leaders and is a beautiful, inspiring learn. Devi, Diva, or She-Devil if you're a working woman who is making an attempt to outlive the home and work outdoors the house circus. Gifted as a result of the tales of the people with disabilities who I even have written about in this book are a wonderful lesson in grit, willpower, passion, and just plain refusal to take the life dished out to them. What are a number of the frequent stereotypes that you've got encountered as a lady author? A. Most individuals, when they meet you at events, social gatherings, or even on a flight, will routinely assume that a girl writer will write romance and Mills & Boons sort of stuff. I spent 23 years as a enterprise journalist, and a few my books are about women in enterprise. Leading Ladies: Women Who Inspire Us is about 20 Indian girls who are trendsetters and pioneers. It makes me mad when individuals make such presumptions about ladies authors. I know many who write killer thrillers, suspense, sci-fi, comedy, and they do it better than many male authors I know! Also, when a lady says she is a author, the primary assumption is that she is a blogger who writes stuff for only her family to learn. Women bloggers are very influential folks, and those that snub them do so at their own riskâ€"time to bust those myths. According to you, what are the important traits of a great author? A. Discipline, discipline self-dis cipline. Write every single day, pay attention to particulars as a result of God is, certainly, within the details. Good writers read good books, they usually do it constantly. 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