About

Dr. Swetha Raghunathan holds a doctorial fellowship in National School of Leadership, Pune in Indian Positive Psychology and Storytelling. She has won the Times and Scottish Book Trust Jura New Writer Award for spending a month at a writer’s residency in the Isle of Jura for her story Tangled Embrioderies. She has won the Charles Wallace India Trust Award to study creative writing at Scottish Union’s International Summer School where she wrote the first draft of the Tulika bestselling picture book Padma Goes to Space. She has done her MA in Writing from the University of Warwick and post graduation in Communication Management from the Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communications, Pune. She has been the author of Wellness and Women’s Health a book on interviews with experts on yoga, storytelling, health and women’s health. She is currently doing storytelling journalism on Story Practices. She is the author of the Mythofiction book Mahishasur Mardini – Eyes of Durga and co-author of Stories from the Jaina Culture – two books in the Indic space. She is the author of the Pachyderm Tales picture books ‘How the eland twisted its horns’ and ‘Pi Chart’. She has written the nonfiction book on Indian storytelling, ‘Art of the Story’ and the fictional postmodern prose poetry collection on African storytelling, ‘African Creation Myths Club’. She is the author of Narratives and Art of Positive Psychology and Indian Storytelling traditions. She is currently working on learning and writing on the Prakrits based in her site Story Practices and School Story Curriculum. She has 4 storytelling brands – School Story Curriculum, Story Practices, Learn Curve for Girls and Touchstone Alice. Swetha loves books has been an avid reader since her school days.