Team Readersburg
The young author...
Nitya Sethi is an author at Shepherd of Readersburg.
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Nitya is 13 years old. She is a voracious reader and a professional swimmer. She has been up to state-level swimming contests and won a few.
She tells us that her favourite are breast and butterfly strokes because they allow her to pop out of water and get some air every now and then. That one's pure writer's instinct, can't be confined!
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And whoa! Nitya is a blue belt holder in Taekwondo.
And the rest of us...
Shruti Kohli is the owner-founder of Shepherd of Readersburg and its various parallels. Before venturing out on her own, she was a journalist with various media houses including The Times of India, The Indian Express and CNBC-TV18.
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Her company began with organising corporate storytelling and women's behavioural finance events at corporate houses like Airtel, Genpact, Ranbaxy, and National Stock Exchange, Mumbai, before streamlining into a children's media hub.
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Shruti is an author with Rupa Publications. Her book is titled The Petticoat Journal.
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Her startup won the Innovative Idea Award 2009 initiated by Your Story and Sun Microsystems.
Sangya Ojha is a Creative Whisperer at Readersburg.
Sangya is a puppeteer and co-founder of The Puppetarians, a Puppet Performance Initiative based in Mumbai. Sangya also puppeteers characters like Elmo & Aanchoo for Sesame Street India, also called Galli Galli Sim Sim.
Through her career spanning 15 years and counting, she has appeared on TV shows like Dance India Dance & Kaun Banega Crorepati, traveled with live puppet plays, puppetry workshops, created online educational and entertaining content with puppets and trained puppeteers worldwide.
Watch Sangya's puppets on Youtube
Shreela Roy is an Image Consultant at Readersburg.
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Shreela is a Mumbai-based Image honcho. She is currently Director, Genesis, BCW.
Shreela has earlier worked with Ketchum Sampark, IPAN Hill & Knowlton and HDFC Life.
Mansi Jhingan is a Word Wiz at Readersburg.
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Mansi tells us she's a hopeless dreamer. And that's the one credential because of which Mansi is with Readersburg.
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Otherwise, Mansiis a Delhi-based creative writer and social media professional. She holds a Mass Communication degree from Jamia Milia Islamia. and a Public Relations degree from Bhartiya Vidya Bhawan, Delhi.
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She has worked as a journalist with Adgully, Mumbai,
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She enjoys reading, photography, music, interacting with people and being in the company of children.
Ajay Jain is a Story Nomad at Readersburg.
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If that thing about 'if you make your hobby your work, you won't have to work anymore', must be believed, then Ajay epitomises it the best. He loves travelling and so he started a travel cafe, Kunzum Travel Cafe, which is now a chain in Delhi. And he went on to author a few travel books.
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Ajay has authored a handful of books, 11 on paper and 50 ebooks, across genres: travel, fiction, marketing, self-help etc. He is also a photographer.
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Ajay is an alumnus of Delhi College of Engineering, Fore School of Management and Cardiff University. He has earlier worked with The Financial Express, The Campus Paper and HuffPost.
Mukesh Marwah is a Creative Design Consultant at Shepherd of Readersburg.
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Mukesh is the Founder and Creative Director of PixelVJ, a web design, branding and UX Agency. He is based out of Delhi.
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Mukesh has earlier worked with CNN-IBN (Senior UI Designer), India Today (Chief Web Designer), and Sapient (Creative Designer).
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He paints not for leisure but to tell his story.