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Reshma K. Barshikar is an erstwhile Investment Banker who fell down a rabbit hole in 2013 and discovered a world outside a fluorescent cubicle. Since then she has wholly embraced daydreaming as her key skill. Fade Into Red, published by Penguin Random House, was her debut novel. Her first YA Fantasy novel, The Hidden Children, won the 2019 Children’s Book Award and went on to become a National Bestseller. When she’s not dreaming up elaborate plots she can barely worm her way out of, she also writes features and contributes to the the National Geographic Traveller, Harper’s Bazaar, Grazia, The Sunday Guardian, The Mint Lounge, The New Indian Express and The Hindu. She is also the creator and founder of The Hidden Imagination Writers Academy. ...more

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