Why are women their own worst enemies? | Lavanya Shanbhogue Arvind | TEDxHCST

Award Winning Author-Ms. Lavanya Shanbhogue is a feminist research scholar and a former employee of a finance firm.

Lavanya Shanbhogue-Arvind’s debut novel is ‘The Heavens We Chase’. She has spent over 7 years in financial services, got disillusioned with it and decided to give it all up. She even possesses a Masters in Creative Writing (from the City University of Hong Kong). Her short story, “The Crystal Snuff Box and the Pappadum,” won the Commonwealth Short Story Special Prize (2011) for the theme, “Women as Agents of Change.” It was adapted for radio by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association and was aired in all the Commonwealth countries. She is currently working on her second novel, an inter-generational story about three women (a grandmother, mother and daughter) who’re affected by religious fundamentalism. She is a feminist pursuing a Masters in Women’s Studies from the Tata Institute of Social Science.
Ms. Lavanya Shanbhogue, is an Award Winning Author, a Feminist Research Scholar and a former employee of a finance firm.

Lavanya Shanbhogue-Arvind’s debut novel ‘The Heavens We Chase’. She has spent over 7 years in financial services, got disillusioned with it and decided to give it all up. She even possesses a Masters in Creative Writing (from the City University of Hong Kong). Her short story, “The Crystal Snuff Box and the Pappadum,” won the Commonwealth Short Story Special Prize (2011) for the theme, “Women as Agents of Change.” It was adapted for radio by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association and was aired in all the Commonwealth countries.

She is currently working on her second novel, an inter-generational story about three women (a grandmother, mother and daughter) who’re affected by religious fundamentalism. She is a feminist pursuing a Masters in Women’s Studies from the Tata Institute of Social Science. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx