Reading & Writing Lounge

Book-lovers and writers, welcome.

This shiny new site will cover all aspects of reading and writing - from book reviews, bestseller lists, breaking news to tips and tricks from the writing trade. We hope to have a little something for everybody - new writers, voracious readers and anybody else with a love for words.

Comments and suggestions are welcome.

About Chandana Banerjee

Chandana Banerjee is a lawyer by qualification and writer by profession. A writer and editor with over 13 years of experience, she has been writing for various media such as, websites, magazines, newspapers, print ads, children’s books, e-learning and corporate communications. She has worked as an Editor and content chief with a UK-based web publishing company where she wrote and edited over 1,500 search-engine-optimized articles for websites. Chandana has also written several articles for national newspapers and magazines; worked as a corporate wordsmith for the Tata group; and, churned out informative content for an e-learning company.

She lives most of the year in a quiet and quaint little place in North India, away from the hullabaloo of city life and the rest of the year in cool and chaotic Pune.

About Sucharita Dutta-Asane

Sucharita is freelance writer based in Pune. She writes both fiction and non-fiction. In the latter category, she writes on academic subjects, human interest features, and topics for web content. Writing is a passion and she also conducts creative writing workshops as and when possible. She writes short stories for various portals and has been short listed for Oxford Bookstore’s e-author version 5.0, 2008 as a debuting Indian writer. A strong foundation in Literature till the M.Phil level has helped her along in more ways than she can list, butshe believes that writing per se cannot be taught. Writing is practice, meditation, devotion. It evolves over a period of time and for her, it is the ultimate catharsis.

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