Non-fiction work, Karmic Kids, Fiction
Kiran Manral (born 1971) is an Indian author. Based in Mumbai, she published her first novel The Reluctant Detective in 2011. Karmic Kids (2015) her first non-fiction work, is an introduction to parenting based on her own experience of raising a son. Manral is the founder of India Helps, a network of volunteers who assist disaster victims.
Kiran Manral is an award-winning and bestselling Indian author, TEDx speaker, columnist, mentor and feminist. She has written books across genres in both fiction and non-fiction. She lives in Mumbai.
Kiran Manral is a writer, novelist and author based in Mumbai She was a journalist at The Asian Age, The Times of India, features editor Cosmopolitan, India Cultural Lead and Trendspotter at Gartner Iconoculture, Senior Consultant at Vector Insights, Ideas Editor, SheThePeople.TV and is currently an independent research and media consultant.
She was shortlisted for the Femina Women Awards for Literary Contribution in 2017. The Indian Council of UN Relations (ICUNR) with the Ministry of Women and Children, Govt of India, awarded her the International Women’s Day Award 2018 for excellence in the field of writing. Her novella, 'Saving Maya', was long-listed for the 2018 Saboteur Award, supported by the Arts Council of England in the UK. Her novels 'The Face At the Window’ and ‘Missing, Presumed Dead' were both long-listed for Jio MAMI Word to Screen, and ‘The Face at the Window’ was also shortlisted for the South Asian Film Festival 2019 . The Kitty Party Murder was shortlisted for the Popular Choice award at the 2021 JK Papers TOI AutHER awards.
Her books include 'The Reluctant Detective', 'Once Upon A Crush', 'All Aboard', 'Karmic Kids-The Story of Parenting Nobody Told You', 'A Boy’s Guide to Growing Up', 'True Love Stories', 'Saving Maya' ’13 Steps to Bloody Good Parenting, Raising Kids with Hope and Wonder in Times of a Pandemic and Climate Change, The Kitty Party Murder and More Things in Heaven and Earth.
She also has published short stories in various magazines, in acclaimed anthologies like Have A Safe Journey, Boo, The Best Asian Speculative Fiction 2018, Magical Women and City of Screams.Twitter-@Kiran Manral ,Insta-kiran manral
After a very warm welcome to Ms Kiran Manral and Ms Rashmi Menon, Ms Menon goes on to talk about how Ms Manral has been a standout writer who has managed to bend the rules to produce books that cannot fit into a specific genre because they’re genre-benders and excellent at that. Ms Kiran thanks Ms Rashmi for the introduction and talks about how her last three books have been about women who find themselves alone, ranging from a woman waiting to die in her final days to a woman who’s surrounded by family but still feels alone and then the final protagonist who also features in her latest book, More things in Heaven and Earth, a young woman who’s a widow. She goes on to talk about how this young woman is portrayed as someone whose life is over after the death of her husband. The session goes on in the same direction as Ms Manral talks about her new book and its influence. Soon the beautiful session comes to a close.