Our Team
Nidhi is Founder & CEO of Bookosmia (smell of books) - a global movement for kids to be heard! Started in
2017, Bookosmia has thrived as a unique publisher for 'kids, by kids' across 150+
locations worldwide. An ex-banker who pivoted from a 10 year banking career to her passion for reading and curating meaningful and relatable organic content for kids in India. Nidhi went to Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University to pick up an Honours in Mathematics and a feminist flair on the side. An MBA from IIM Lucknow took her to a decade-long career in the financial sector, finally quitting as VP, HSBC.
Nidhi has advised IIT Faculty on developing fun science content for kids from books to Augmented Reality Apps . She has been on the board of the Singapore based international journal Borderless. A neurodiversity ally, Nidhi has been invited to talk about her experience in building Not That Different not just in India but at Stanford Neurodiveristy Program, Vanderbilt Neurodiversity Summit etc. Nidhi spends much of her free time overindulging her two beautiful daughters, running her passion project 'Traveling Time with Books' chatting with authors about books
on Indian history and working on her passion of taking The Lucknawi Experience to people through events, with other IIM alums. You can write to her at nidhi@bookosmia.com.
Archana claims she has had her nose inside a book since she was five. She started her career as a Business Journalist with Business Standard newspaper and quit as Principal Correspondent of the Bangalore Bureau to focus on motherhood.
In between bottles and nappy changes, she has written articles and stories that have been published in the Woman’s Era, Deccan Herald, Bonobology, Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul series and Luxury Escapes Magazine. As a corporate blogger, speech and column writer, she has worked with clients like Bank Bazaar (Singapore), HomeAway, My Dream Holiday and PartyOne. When she is not chewing on her pencil, she writes about things that matter to her most - people and sport. In 2017, her Facebook post on cricket went viral, getting her featured in mainstream newspapers across India and Pakistan including The Indian Express, The Nation and The Tribune from Pakistan. She loves interacting with budding writers and has conducted journalism workshops in colleges. She is also a closet fiction writer and won the Commonwealth Short Story contest’s ‘Highly Commended Story’ award in 2009.
Archana has studied "Scripting for Sitcom" at UCLA ext under Kevin Kelton and is always under pressure from the rest of the team to write the finest kids show in India. It is no surprise that Archana's first childrens' book Yaksha, the first ever book on the Yakshagana art form, shook up the literary world and was hailed as a classic in the making. Yaksha is available as both physical and ebook forms in Kannada and English on Amazon and Kindle.
Feel free to write to her at archana@bookosmia.com.
In between bottles and nappy changes, she has written articles and stories that have been published in the Woman’s Era, Deccan Herald, Bonobology, Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul series and Luxury Escapes Magazine. As a corporate blogger, speech and column writer, she has worked with clients like Bank Bazaar (Singapore), HomeAway, My Dream Holiday and PartyOne. When she is not chewing on her pencil, she writes about things that matter to her most - people and sport. In 2017, her Facebook post on cricket went viral, getting her featured in mainstream newspapers across India and Pakistan including The Indian Express, The Nation and The Tribune from Pakistan. She loves interacting with budding writers and has conducted journalism workshops in colleges. She is also a closet fiction writer and won the Commonwealth Short Story contest’s ‘Highly Commended Story’ award in 2009.
Archana has studied "Scripting for Sitcom" at UCLA ext under Kevin Kelton and is always under pressure from the rest of the team to write the finest kids show in India. It is no surprise that Archana's first childrens' book Yaksha, the first ever book on the Yakshagana art form, shook up the literary world and was hailed as a classic in the making. Yaksha is available as both physical and ebook forms in Kannada and English on Amazon and Kindle.
Feel free to write to her at archana@bookosmia.com.
Pooja is Bookosmia’s default visual design expert - illustrator, , rejector of bizarre creative ideas the rest of the team comes up with. She has illustrated for over 6 published children's books on wide ranging topics, created the Natkhat Scientist DIY Kits, multiple children's characters and won the award for best thesis in the Doon University for her pathbreaking work on our neuroneutal sticker book.
Mugdha Kalra is our 'special-mommy' in chief.
She asked for a purpose in life and it came to her in the form of her son Madhav. Madhav is on the autism spectrum and Mugdha is an autism activist and a special needs parenting coach. A TV news journalist, writer and trainer by profession.
Mugdha has chosen neurodiversity awareness as her mission and she uses all her skills of research, writing, and communication to spread the word on inclusion and acceptance. Bookosmia is delighted to have this well known autism activist onboard and guiding us on our mission to make the world more inclusive to neurodiverse kids.
Her Instagram @autismtalesiwithmugdha chronicles their life in the spectrum and she has a keen interest in child and adolescents mental health. For everything else it is mugdhakalra.com
She asked for a purpose in life and it came to her in the form of her son Madhav. Madhav is on the autism spectrum and Mugdha is an autism activist and a special needs parenting coach. A TV news journalist, writer and trainer by profession.
Mugdha has chosen neurodiversity awareness as her mission and she uses all her skills of research, writing, and communication to spread the word on inclusion and acceptance. Bookosmia is delighted to have this well known autism activist onboard and guiding us on our mission to make the world more inclusive to neurodiverse kids.
Her Instagram @autismtalesiwithmugdha chronicles their life in the spectrum and she has a keen interest in child and adolescents mental health. For everything else it is mugdhakalra.com
Devanshi is passionate about language and communications.She enjoys conversations with parents and kids and encourage them to make use of the latest opportunities at Bookosmia. Devanshi hopes to benefit Bookosmians by reading every article by them and giving feedback, leveraging her own skills and experience.
An ex-journalist with publications like The Times of India, DNA, and Divya Bhaskar, Devanshi has a masters in Mass Comm with a specialization in Journalism, Advertising & Public Relations from The M.S.Univ of Baroda. She writes blogs and runs YouTube channels, 'Ah! Matrutva' & 'Edu Talks' with a focus on parenting and education ans as a freelance content writer for IFORHER. A certified soft skills trainer, conducting sessions on 'communication skills' at National Institute of Skills Training.
You can write to Devanshi at devanshi@bookosmia.com
Shivani Dhillon, mentor for the book Extra, ex- BBC Journalist and and award- winning social entrepreneur is travelling through the country to promote the book and the message of inclusion amongst school kids.Mother to 12-year-old Shreya with Down Syndrome, Shivani is an uses the power of storytelling both for recreation, as therapy and as a tool to spread the message of inclusion.
After fantastic launches in Bangalore, Delhi and Kashmir, Shivani is taking the book across India. The book has been spotlighted by The Hindu, The Better India, The New Indian Express, ABP News and Zee news and been endorsed by India Inclusion Foundation Founder VR Ferose, educationalist Dr.Swati Popat Vats and DSFI Founder, Dr.Rekha Ramachandran.
K. R. Guruprasad has been associated with the sports pages of several newspapers over the last 16 years, as Sports Editor of DNA and previously the Indian Express and Hindustan Times.
Guru is Bookosmia's default sports consultant, from Olympics to T20, he keeps the ball rolling. Guru has developed a finesse at zooming out of the myopic view of any game, instead looking at sports as a coming together of the players’ lives and struggles, skills and technique and much more. His book ‘Going Places: India's Small Town Cricket Heroes’ by Penguin is a great testament to this approach.
An alumnus of Asian College of Journalism, was born in Bellary, Karnataka and later pursued his education in Mumbai.
Guru is Bookosmia's default sports consultant, from Olympics to T20, he keeps the ball rolling. Guru has developed a finesse at zooming out of the myopic view of any game, instead looking at sports as a coming together of the players’ lives and struggles, skills and technique and much more. His book ‘Going Places: India's Small Town Cricket Heroes’ by Penguin is a great testament to this approach.
An alumnus of Asian College of Journalism, was born in Bellary, Karnataka and later pursued his education in Mumbai.
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