Scharada Dubey
Writing, Art, Teaching, Tarot
BIO
Scharada Dubey is an award-winning author of books for children and adults. Her first books were travelogues published by the Children’s Book Trust in 1994 and 1997 that set her on the path of writing for children. Her narrative non-fiction covers several aspects of contemporary India. Scharada Dubey enjoys interacting with students from schools across the country, and teaches creative writing to budding writers. She loves cats, and has come to reside in Pune in 2013 after many years spent in Chennai, Faizabad, and Lucknow.
Scharada’s own story equips her to make an easy connection with people across age, gender, regional and language divides and motivate people to be and do their very best. She is a mature individual who has worked extensively with those seeking her counsel through the medium of Tarot.
In recent years, she has been drawn to art, and her work and merchandise is suited to contemporary homes and interiors.
BOOKS AVAILABLE ONLINE
TESTIMONIALS
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Portraits From Ayodhya turns the debate over the disputed site on its head by humanising it. Through the prism of the small lives of this small town the media discourse on the issue disintegrates into equal parts of tragedy and farce...Dubey reacts to her subjects but does not judge them. She records more than their take on the politics over religion in Ayodhya — she chronicles a fast disappearing way of life.
Pragya Tiwari
www.sunday-guardian.com
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You can, simply by reading Dubey's painstakingly created narrative, find yourself being privy to various situations. You are suddenly sitting amid a group of cannabis smokers in Varanasi. Soon, you find yourself talking about how casteism is irrelevant in contemporary society with a couple of devotees in Mahadeva village, near Lucknow. You are transported seamlessly into the tumultuous annual ther procession of Kapaleeswarar Temple in Chennai, as you remain witness to thousands of devotees pulling the chariot amid the rumble of drums and conch shells. From the Golden Temple in Amritsar to Ramana Ashram in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, the book takes you across the country on a spiritual journey.
Sudhir Srinivasan
goodreads.com on Bol Bam: Approaches to Shiva
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This is an outstanding spiritual travelogue. Scharada Dubey, an "incurable Hindu", would have scored high marks had she been a journalist. This is reportage at its best, a perfect blend of her love for Lord Shiva with the numerous interviews conducted with mainly poor pilgrims she meets at some of India's most prominent Shiva shrines.
"Hinduism is not the easiest of religions to preach or translate for those unfamiliar with its labyrinthine maze of stories and symbols, its multiplicity of forms and the contradictions inevitably thrown up in discussing the various aspects," she says -- and rightly so. But Dubey beautifully succeeds in unraveling the many mysteries and mythology associated with Shiva, one of the Trinity that dominates the Hindu religion, without drowning us with needless history and religious jargon.
M. R. Narayan Swamy
www.firstpost.com on Bol Bam: Approaches to Shiva
CONTACT
For any media inquiries, please contact Scharada Dubey
Tel: +91 9975841727 | | allscharada@gmail.com
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