Debajani Mohanty

Winner of "Aarya" award, an epitome of nobility, purity and preciousness, year 2017 by Nobel Laureate Shri Kailash Satyarthi and "Best Debutante Author of The Year" award by literature festival Sarjanaa, Debajani Mohanty is an engineering graduate and senior I.T. professional with a career of nearly one and half decades. Her interests include music, history, world cuisines and women education & empowerment. The nature of her work as well as passion for different cultures has made her travel half of the living world.

“The Curse of Damini” her debut novel though crafted as a thriller is actually a historical fiction that covers seven decades of India's past and portrays many age-old vices against women. She started writing this 3 years back after the barbaric Nirbhaya episode of Delhi and her work is a small effort towards ending the violence and discrimination against women in society.

Debajani is married and lives in Delhi/NCR with her husband and two daughters.