Her very first book ‘Aruna’s Story’ (1998) was hailed as path-breaking and continues to be read by gender-study collegiates. Her another book ‘Bitter Chocolate’ (2000) on child sexual abuse in middle and upper-class homes opened a new genre and earned her international plaudit for being the first in the Indian subcontinent to courageously speak up as a victim of incest. She won national award for that book.
Born in a Mumbai chawl in its Dongri area, Pinki Virani (52) began working as a typist at the age of 18. In journalism she began as reporter for a newspaper, worked as special correspondent for a national weekly, launched a fortnightly city magazine as editor and is India’s first woman editor of an eveninger.
Born in a Mumbai chawl in its Dongri area, Pinki Virani (52) began working as a typist at the age of 18. In journalism she began as reporter for a newspaper, worked as special correspondent for a national weekly, launched a fortnightly city magazine as editor and is India’s first woman editor of an eveninger.
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