Vanaja Banagiri

Vanaja Banagiri is the former editor of Hyderabad Times, the Times of India's city edition.  She has been associated with Savvy, Society, Femina, Filmfare, Health & Nutrition, and the Economic Times in various editorial capacities.  Sha has also written for the Sunday Observer, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Me, and New Woman.  She has won many awards for excellence during her journalistic career for her groundbreaking stories.  At forty, she quit journalism to pursue writing; her debut novel Butterflies and Barbed Wires was published in 2006.  She also writes poetry.  Hyderabad Hazir Hai is her second book.  She currently lives in Hyderabad.