Shreya’s column for the newspapers in June is about sleeping but might wake you up. “Enjoyed this excellent piece!” said one reader.

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“….Love and sleeping arrangements have always gone hand in hand. We ‘sleep together’ in every sense of the phrase when we get hitched. But sleeping habits have as much to do with health, history, culture and economics.

The size of our beds has grown over the ages, and that’s as much about evolution as it is about socioeconomics. Humans are larger today than at any other time in history, having soared four inches in height in prosperous countries in the last century. Breadthwise too there’s been abundant efflorescence, with global obesity tripling in the last five decades.

Yet, peek into one of the many beautifully preserved historic homes in Britain, and the beds you see are bijou for other reasons…”

Published in the Asian Age and the Deccan Chronicle, please read the article in full here

Top Notts Magazine Covers Shreya’s Opera

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“She’s had two books published by HarperCollins, written for international media and was even the regional head of a television channel at the age of 25. It’s fair to say that there are achievers in this world, and then there’s Shreya Sen-Handley. And if that impressive CV wasn’t enough, she’s now become the first Indian and South Asian woman to write a Western, international opera, called Migrations. We catch up with the multi-talented writer to find out more…”

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“Shreya Sen Handley is…the first South Asian woman to have written a libretto for an international opera,” states top Indian newspapers

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The Welsh National Opera’s Migrations, a series of six stories exploring migration from different angles, is composed by Will Todd and opens on October 3, 2020. Shreya Sen-Handley (Memoirs of My Body, Strange) is one of the six writers, and the first South Asian woman to have written a libretto for an international opera. She focusses on the experiences of the first Indian doctors in Britain.

Other than Jeet Thayil and Amit Chaudhuri, not so many Indian/Asian writers of either sex have had an opportunity to write international opera. Continue reading →

“Shreya Sen Handley becomes first Indian woman to write international opera” says top newspapers Asian Age and Deccan Chronicle

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Indian writers writing operas for western productions — something that is not unheard of as there have been the likes of Amit Chaudhuri and Jeet Thayil who have done so. But now, most recently, author Shreya Sen-Handley became the first Indian and South Asian woman to write an opera for the Welsh National Opera…

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