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Sadhna Shanker’s first novel is about three generations of women
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Sadhna Shanker
Sadhna Shanker is a telling picture of a multi-tasking working woman. An Indian Revenue Service officer, now posted as Commissioner of Income Tax in New Delhi, Shanker, besides being a wife and a mother, has hosted and acted in tele-shows on Doordars
han, has a set of academic degrees to parade, has co-authored a book in three languages, has been scripting articles for Indian and international newspapers and journals besides running a regular column in the Hindi daily, Dainik Bhaskar.
Also, she is dressing up her first novel and has just recently compiled her articles under the title, When The Parallels Meet. “We are in exciting times, fast-paced and madly interconnected,” she says. So, almost all her compiled articles in the book, 60 of them, weave in this transformation in simple words.
Her 168-page book, published by Alokparv Prakashan, cans these waves of change constantly.
“The economic boom has given a lot of confidence to our people, including youngsters.
You see the change of perception towards India,” says this alumna of Japan’s Yokohama National University.
Shanker is giving the final touches to her debut novel. “It is about three friends and their choices, not necessarily of their liking.
I feel that my mother’s generation lived for others while my daughter’s generation lives for themselves. But our generation, now living the 40s, has lived for both others and themselves. My story will ring around this idea,” she explains.
SANGEETA BAROOAH PISHAROTY
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