Reshma K. Barshikar

Travel writer and novelist Reshma Krishnan Barshikar is an erstwhile Investment Banker who, as she tells it, ?fell down a rabbit hole and discovered a world outside a fluorescent cubicle.? As a travel and features writer, she contributes to National Geographic Traveller, Harper?s Bazaar, Grazia, The Sunday Guardian, SilverKris, The Mint Lounge and The Hindu. She is also co-founder of the literary blog The Caterpillar Cafe. Fade Into Red, published by Random House was her debut novel and featured in Amazon Top 10 Bestsellers. She also holds well renowned workshops for young adults at both BDL Museum and Kala Ghoda and is very keen to build a strong Young Adult reading and writing community to fill the desperate lack of young adult fiction in the Indian Market. Her new Young Adult novel will be launching at the festival. Reshma is from the ISB Class of 2003. She calls both Mumbai and the Nilgiris home.