Nidhi Poddar is a woman of intrepid character who had to pass through ceaseless formidable challenges in her life while parenting her stout and inspiring son, Divyansh Atman, the protagonist of the book, BLAZE. These challenges eventually transformed a homemaker into an author of the book. Nidhi graduated in Economics from Patna University in 1994. She is married to Sushil Poddar and they have a daughter too. The Durga Samman has recently been bestowed upon her in Kolkata for authoring the book, BLAZE. She takes active interest in cooking and as she says, her culinary skill got a delectable touch by Divyansh, the protagonist of BLAZE. Lately, Nidhi has become a voracious reader.
Blaze epitomizes Divyansh Atman, the protagonist who started his journey of fighting cancer at the age of 13 and fought untiringly facing its head till the age of 22 years. His parents travelled this journey following Divyansh in every way right from pain to sadness to uncomforting to chemo days and still never looked dissatisfied with life. Divyansh as a child was brilliant in both academics, writing poems, letters, and rhymes and his parents especially his Mother always tried their hands at doing something unique which compelled Divyansh to write something and live this exemplary life tolerating pain, and isolation and show great fighting spirit, being hopeful, never giving up and realization of this finite time to be utilized in the most progressive way.