Manjiri Prabhu holds a Doctorate in Communication Science and is a short-filmmaker, an award-winning international author and the Curator & Founder-Director of two international festivals- Pune International Literary Festival and International Festival of Spiritual India (for Humanity & Wisdom). Credited for “Exoticizing the occident through intrepid, compelling storytelling” by Dr Shashi Tharoor, she has authored 20 books, directed over 200 children’s TV programmes and more than 50 short fiction and travel films. A master storyteller, Prabhu has been acknowledged as a pioneer in India among women writers of mystery fiction, who has been on the literary horizon for more than three decades.
