Pooja-PandePooja Pande is a writer, editor and TED speaker who heads strategy at Khabar Lahariya. She led First City as editor through the 2000s, and is the co-author of Red Lipstick with Laxmi Narayan Tripathi. Pande’s writing has appeared in various publications, including in The Wire, Firstpost, VICE, The Ladies Finger, Himal Southasian, and a short story in If Mom’s Happy, an anthology of erotica featuring mums. With her book Momspeak she has finally come to terms with her mother-writer self, and is now looking forward to birthing many more book-babies.

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