1. WOMEN
WRITERS

2. Louise Albeita Chewiwi
Louise Abeita Chewiwi is a Native American writer
and educator, who is an enrolled member of Isleta
Pueblo . Louise Abeita was born, in 1926, and raised
at Isleta Pueblo, New Mexico, United States . Her
father, Diego Abeita, was active in tribal
government. Her mother, Lottie Gunn Abeita, was
from Laguna Pueblo. When Abeita was a young girl,
her father noticed that she had a natural talent for
poetry. In order to showcase his daughters

3. work, he brought together Native artists from
Navajo, Apache and Pueblo communities to create
and print a book based around her poetry. This
group would form the National Gallery of the
American Indian (NGAI), and they would publish
Abeita's illustrated book. She was 13 years old. The
book, I am a Pueblo Indian Girl, has been described
as the "first truly Indian book," by historians
Gretchen Bataille and Laurie Lisa. When Abeita was
a young girl, her father noticed that she had a
natural talent for poetry. In order to showcase his
daughters work, he brought together Native artists
from Navajo`, Apache and Pueblo communities to
create and print a book based around her poetry.

4. This group would form the National Gallery of the
American Indian (NGAI), and they would publish
Abeita's illustrated book . She was 13 years old. The
book, I am a Pueblo Indian Girl, has been described
as the "first truly Indian book," by historians
Gretchen Bataille and Laurie Lisa.I Am a Pueblo
Indian Girl depicts the life of Abeita through prose
and poetry. Themes throughout the book touch on
Pueblo traditions, with illustrations by artists from
NGAI complimenting Abeita's writing. This book is
considered the first effort in the Pueblo community
to document artistry and tradition to the English-
speaking, non-Native community.

5. She had a long career teaching within the BIA
school system and continued be active in Indian
education long after her retirement.

6. Preeti Shenoy
During her school years Preeti studied in Kendriya
Vidyalayas all over India, due to her father's
constant job transfers, and this contact with
different cultures and languages may have had an
influence in her later interest for Sociology. She
started developing her writing skills since an early
age, but only considered becoming a professional
writer after she created herself a blog in October
2006. The number of page hits on her blog
increased day by day, and readers throughout the
world suggested her that she should consider
publishing her texts. In 2007 she wrote a couple of
art icles for

7. Metro Scan, a local magazine, and in the beginning
of 2008 she was invited to start contributing
regularly to the newspaper Times of India. On this
same year she wrote articles for Reader's Digest
"Joy", and had her articles republished in various
other Indian newspapers and magazines.
Encouraged by the favorable reception of her first
publications, she decided it was time to dedicate to
a larger project, and began writing her first book, a
collection of narratives based on real life incidents,
some of which had been previously posted on her
blog in a shorter form. It was launched in October
2008. Her second book, a fictional novel about an
Indian girl named Ankita Sharma, was published in
January 2011. Her plans are to become a full time
writer.

8. Preeti is a poet, too —her poetry was published in
the Sulekha Book Series— and a self taught artist
who paints in water colors and oils but also works in
mixed media.

10. ANITA DESAI
Anita Mazumdar Desai (born 24 June 1937) is an
[Indian] novelist and Emeritus John E. Burchard
Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. She has been shortlisted for
the Booker Prize three times, was awarded the
Sahitya Akademi Award, in 1978 for her novel, Fire
on the Mountain, by the Sahitya Akademi , India's
National Academy of Letters. She was a student at
Queen Mary's Higher Secondary School in Delhi and
received her B.A. in English literature in 1957 from
the Miranda House of the University of Delhi.

11. The following year she married Ashvin Desai, the
director of a computer software company and
author of the book: Between Eternities: Ideas on Life
and The Cosmos. They have four children, including
Booker Prize-winning novelist Kiran Desai. Her
children were taken to Thul (near Alibagh) for
weekends, where Desai set her novel The Village by
the Sea. Desai published her first novel, Cry The
Peacock, in 1963. She considers Clear Light Of Day
(1980) her most autobiographical work as it is set
during her coming of age and also in the same
neighbourhood in which she grew up. In 1984 she
published In Custody - about an Urdu poet in his
declining days - which was shortlisted for the Booker
Prize.

12. In 1993 she became a creative writing teacher at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her novel,
The Zigzag Way (2004), is set in 20th-century
Mexico and her latest novel The Artist of
Disappearance came in 2011. In 1993 Merchant
Ivory Productions released In Custody, directed by
Ismail Merchant, with a screenplay by Shahrukh
Husain. It won the 1994 President of India Gold
Medal for Best Picture and stars Shashi Kapoor,
Shabana Azmi and Om Puri.

14. GITA PIRAMAL
Gita Piramal (also referred as 'Dr. Gita Piramal‘ )
born in 1954 is a renowned media personality,
freelance writer, business historian, managing
editor of The Smart Manager magazine, Director of
BP Ergo and former director of VIP Industries
Limited. She was married into Mumbai-based
Piramal business family and featured in 25 Most
Powerful Women in Indian Business in 2004. She
has holded the MA in History and the PhD in
Business History from Bombay University in 1989.

15.  She has penned down several books:
• Business Maharajas
• Business Legends (1999)
• Managing Radical Change (co-authored with
Sumantra Ghoshal) (Delhi Management Association
prize for the best management book)
• World Class in India (co-authored with Sumantra
Ghoshal) (Delhi Management Association prize for
the best management book)
• Business Mantras
• Sumantra Ghoshal on Management: A Force for
Good (co-authored with Julian Birkinshaw)

16. • Smart Leadership (2005)
• The Smart Manager, managing editor since Feb
2002.
• India's Industrialists, Vol. 1 (co-authored with
Margaret Herdeck)
 Awards and recognition
• Gita had received 'Business Today Award' for being
one of India's 25 most powerful women in 2004.
• She also received the Scholar of the Year 2004
award from Ness Wadia College, Pune, India.
• Her two books have been adjudged as best
management book by Delhi Management
Association.

17. Gita spent most of her childhood in London. She
married Dilip Piramal of VIP Industries Limited
around 1979. They divorced in 2005. Dilip and Gita
had two daughters, Radhika and Aparna. Radhika
studied in England and completed an MBA from
Harvard Business School. Aparna married Amit Raje
in June-2005. After the divorce, Dilip married to
Shalini Agarwal in June-2005.