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.

We forgot to post the second part of Shreya’s article on the fabulous song-writing workshops she led for Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature last year so here it is!

Working with a large number of diverse, individual, secondary school students in Nottingham, UK, and the rhythms and words that speak to them, Shreya guided the youngsters in creating striking lyrics about their everyday and yet very important worlds.

Please click here to read the article in full, and for the first part, which has been posted before, please click here to read it once more.

Shreya writes about truth in memoir, with a “refreshing, current, and beautifully written” take on the subject, for a British literary magazine

“I’m with Oscar when he posits, “the truth is rarely pure and never simple.” Wilde! Not at all how a lot of folk, including famous philosophers, view truth – as the single unimpeachable edict on which we must build our world. Yet, the witty Irishman was, as always, spot on. The multiplicity of our planet makes undiluted, uncomplicated truth impossible, begging the terribly modern question of “whose truth?” There’s never just one side to a story, you see, though one of the numerous versions taking wing might brush closest to its empirical moorings…”

Please click here to read the essay in full

Shreya’s monthly column for newspapers in September is about the winds of change and fanning them ourselves

“But the battle isn’t irredeemably lost. If spearheading isn’t your gig, there are still people worth supporting, from climate activist Greta Thunberg to New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, to grassroots leaders of progressive, sustainable living across this distressed planet. Liking them as people shouldn’t be prerequisites, as it’s their urgent causes we need to rally around…”

Please click here to read in full