Her first book Ancient Promises is a semi-autobiographical one, which takes its storyline from her arranged marriage and subsequent divorce. She later moved back to Delhi, from where she works currently. Her first few books have been written during this time, when, in her own words, she ‘moonlighted as a novelist’. She had a series of jobs after that, where she taught adults with special needs, did child care work in a Social Services department, worked as a radio journalist at the BBC and, most recently, was a film classifier at the British Board of Film Classification in London. As a direct result, she got into the field of special education, and did a post-grad diploma at the Institute of Education in London. She has a daughter with a severe learning disability from her first marriage, who is better taken care of there.

She spent most of her growing up years between Delhi and Bangalore.Īfter her divorce from her first husband, she re-married her first love, and moved to Britain with her new family. She was born in New Delhi to a Malayali family – father an officer in the Indian Air Force, mother a schoolteacher and one brother two years older. Jaishree Misra’s life has been an inspirational one – she rose above a disastrous first marriage and personal tragedy as a mother to become a sought after writer. Plus, there will be 10 overall winners at the end of 2016 from among these winners! Muse of the month (April 2016) The 5 best entries will each win a Flipkart voucher worth Rs 250. Please avoid typing the story as inline text (in the body of the mail).

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