Meghaa Gupta: Green Literature & Children's Books

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The episode opens with Meghaa talking about what writing means to her. She shares how she started writing and her creative influences. We talk about publishing, rights management and book to screen adaptations. Later, we chat about her interest in children's books with a specialised focus on green literature. The episode ends with Meghaa narrating excerpts from her book 'After Midnight'.

Meghaa Gupta is an author and festival curator! In 2018, she made her foray into children's writing with the award-winning picture book, A Home of Our Own, and in 2020, the children's imprint of Penguin Random House India published Unearthed: An Environmental History of Independent India. It's the first book in a widely-acclaimed, unique series of history books on Independent India for young and lay readers, that have been endorsed by Ramachandra Guha, Manu S Pillai, Bittu Sahgal, Tripurdaman Singh and Disha Shetty among others. She’s previously worked with Tulika Publishers, the Times Group and Singapore Press Holdings. Currently, Meghaa is pursuing her MA in Environmental Humanities from Bath Spa University. She is also the co-founder of the Green Literature Festival in India.

Mentions: Journaling, Times Of India, Tulika Publishers, A Home Of Our Own, Radhika Menon, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Tenali Raman, Chhota Bheem, David Godwin, Arundhati Roy, Booker Prize, Aangan, The Women’s Courtyard, Khathija Mastoor, Harry Potter, Ruskin Bond, Roald Dahl, Subhadra Sen Gupta, Paro Anand, India After Gandhi, Ramchandra Guha, Penguin Random House, Puffin Books, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Khalil Gibran, The Prophet, Katherine Rundell, Karan Mahajan, Family Planning, The Lady And The Monk, Pico Iyer, Everybody Loves A Good Draught, P.Sainath, This Fissured Land, Madhav Gadgil