Vaijayanthi Subramanian

Love Letters with Spelling Mistakes Vaijayanthi Subramanian

Blurb These eight compelling stories are about empowered Indian women facing challenges. A budding psychiatrist, a survivor of child sexual abuse must treat a paedophile in a country that has no mandatory reporting of a paedophile yet. What does she do? A girl faces a boyfriend, jealous of her past a sense of belonging bestows freedom or territorialism? A talented actor finds it hard to pretend a role that she is truly playing in life. What happens when father's attractive woman admirer enters a middle-class household? Is a girl child still unwanted in a well to do family? These stories speak of all that is hidden in dignified silence. About the AuthorDr. Vaijayanthi Subramanian completed her MD in Psychiatry from the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurological Sciences. She is currently working as an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at MS Ramaiah Medical College, Bengaluru and consultant Psychiatrist at Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. She has worked extensively with survivors of child sexual abuse and published papers in peer-reviewed indexed journals. She has conducted several workshops in sensitization about abuse at Bengaluru, Mysore and Colombo at Sri-lanka. Dr. Subramanian has been a professional expert of psychiatry on local TV channels, Chandana, Suvarna News, Samaya, Digvijaya, Udaya etc. and on FM Radio. She is multifaceted, having dabbled at theatre, a Bharathnatyam dancer and a musician. Some of her poems were published in two anthologies 'Peacock's Cry' (2006) and 'I, Me and Myself' (2009). Her book Silent Flute (2013) was published as a part of Navodaya program to encourage Indian English writing in writers below 40 years by Kendra Sahitya Akademi, carries an eloquent foreword by late Dr. U. R. Ananthamurthi.