International webinar 09 - DANGLING GANDHI

International Webinar series part 9
STORY: Read Singapore!
SPEAKER/REVIEWER 1
Sadhana Suresh is 15 years old studying in woodlands secondary school. Since young age she has always been interested in reading. She found reading important as she believes it gives her an opportunity to experience different lives in one sitting. She’s wanted an opportunity to share her knowledge through reading and she’s happy the opportunity finally reached her.
SPEAKER/REVIEWER 2
Sadhanashri is a 16 year old Eunoia Junior College student who previously studied in Singapore Chinese Girls School for her secondary education. Moreover, she has a deep passion for Tamil language and have participated in various speech competitions since primary school and recently participated in sorsilambam 2023, a national Tamil debate competition. After many competitive rounds her team emerged as the champions for the first time in EJC history. She has lots of interest in music and dance and have been learning Bharathanatyam for close to 11 years. Adding on to these she is a very people- orientated person and loves to spend time talking to people around her.
The book: DANGLING GANDHI
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AUTHOR
When Will You Die? Jayanthi Sankar’s fourth book, a novella captivates her readers through is explorations of the human psyche. Tabula Rasa her third book, and the second novel was a 2022 NYC Big Book Award ‘Distinguished Favourite’ in the category of Historical Fiction and an ‘honourable mention’ in San Francisco book fest award 2022. She has been in several international panels of literary festivals such as APWT 2018 at Gold coast, Singapore Writers Festival, Seemanchal International Literary festival, Asean- India Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Writers Festival. Misplaced Heads, was on the Eyelands Book Awards 2020 final list of historical fiction in Greece, making its mark as an outstanding postmodern historical fiction. The winner in fiction: short story in 2020 International Book Award -American book fest ‘Dangling Gandhi’ also won the international The Literary Titan award apart from several shortlists and nominations. The title story Dangling Gandhi shortlisted in the 2nd Twist & Twain International Short Story Contest out of the 165 worldwide entries.
A watercolour hobbyist, she’s been a freelancer for more than two decades, with three years of experience in journalism. Born and brought up in India, she lives in Singapore since 1990. She is a full time on-site Interpreter with the Ministry of Manpower.
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Website: www.jayanthisankar.com
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