Ganga Bharani Vasudevan

As a child, Ganga was encouraged by her father to read newspaper opinion pieces and to write.^[2] She began contributing opinion articles to Your Opinion Matters on NXGN at the age of 15.^[2][1] She also started blogging in 2006, starting with material that was not accepted by newspapers.^[2][3][1] After about five years, she started writing short stories and became interested in writing a book.^[1] She wrote the first chapters of her first book on her blog.^[4][2] After many rejections from publishers, she was contacted by a publisher about writing a book.^[1][2]

She has won a variety of contests for her blogging, and was shortlisted for the UK Blog Awards in 2015.^[2] One of her short stories has been made into the short film Bhimbam.^[2] Two of her short films, Tiny Steps and Candles, won awards at the WE CARE Film Festival.^[2]

Ganga is also a technical analyst.^[5][3][6]