Mona Verma is an award-winning author of five works of fiction-A Bridge to Nowhere, God is a River, The White Shadow, The Clown of Whitefields & other stories and The Other. She has edited various science journals, self-help books, biographies and is a regular feature writer for online newspapers. She is on the board of various universities as an advisory expert and is much sought after as visiting faculty for Creative Writing, Haiku and Limericks. She is now a member of FICCI and a regular invitee to the Writers' Meet called for by the Governor of Uttarakhand, at Raj Bhawan, Dehradun. A Paul Harris fellow, she actively volunteers with Interplast, Germany, and Rotary International Foundation for the treatment of surgical accidents and burns victims. She was recently honoured with the executive membership in the Management Committee of Anushruti, a social initiative of IIT, Roorkee, for the exemplary work done for the special children at Anushruti. She is also a member of the Academic Review Committee with Anushruti, IIT Roorkee. She is the first chair for the Outreach Committee with Kumaon Literature Festival planning board. Mona has been offered to organise and curate a Literature Festival with the Times of India in May 2018. Presently, she co-owns and runs her firm DISHA, which deals with corporate, organisational and faculty/student training. Mona is a regular participant in most of the popular literary fests in India.
BANARAS CELEBRATES DEATH, BUT WHAT DOES IT DO TO THE LIVING DEAD?: When three-year-old Brinda is widowed after being married for a few hours, her family refuses to take her back in. Deemed 'munhoos, she finds her way to Nirmal Ashram in Banaras where she leads a life of child widow under the watchful eye of Vasanti Bua and her friend, Debi. She and Debi are just another shade of white in the city's numerous 'white shadows' until Sia and Uday return to Banaras. As visitors to the ancient city, they assumed that the unfinished stories of their past were long behind them. Little did they know that Banaras was waiting with its unspent debt and the dishonest voices would find their way back to them in Brinda and Debi.
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