Shreya celebrated as”illustrious alumna” by her renowned alma mater, Loreto College, of the venerable University of Calcutta (even their prospectus mentions her)!

Here she is on page 9, at the start of their alumnae section. She is also featured on their website, although we should probably get in touch with them to update their biography, as she’s done a thing or two, including two books, since this was posted!

Image from her time on Loreto’s student leadership, as President of the Literary Society and Quiz Club.

Shreya’s column for newspapers in September is about the highs and lows of recent visits to her hometown of Kolkata

‘Banquets and Brickbats for Crumbling Kolkata’ is this month’s column for The Asian Age and Deccan Chronicle.

“…f I crane a little from our back-bedroom window, it’s still possible to spy swaying fronds of palm and coconut trees. The sun too seems to slant into this room the way it did in our childhood, illuminating its new walls of calming azure. In the quiet of the afternoon, the tap-tap-tap of a kingfisher or ledge-loping monkey can sometimes still be heard. Even the hubbub of the local bazaar is a pleasantly muted rhythm when filtering in from afar…”

Please read it in full here