Shruthi Rao's book on Indian Personalities
US based author, Shruthi Rao, is out with a nonfiction book for children. Published by Talking Cub, 20 Indians Who Changed The World is a collection of Indian personalities who made a difference in this world. How did this project come about? Sudeshna Shome Ghosh, editor at Talking Cub, asked me to write it. How long did you take to write the book? About a year, including zeroing in on the personalities, research, writing and editing. What was the biggest challenge in writing this book? Was it easy to find offline research materials in US? The biggest challenge – too much information, too little information, diffused information, conflicting information. To collate it all into one structured write up was very, very hard. Offline research material wasn’t difficu...