An Author’s Afteroon with Dr Swati Lodha

With Dr Swati Lodha, Swaara Lodha, Shailesh Lodha and Samrat Dutta

April 29, 2017: Today evening the 43rd session of An Authors Afternoon was held at The Taj Bengal with guest author Dr Swati Lodha. She was interviewed by her better half, Shailesh Lodha, who is an actor, comedian and writer. Mr Lodha is also widely recognized for his role of Tarak Mehta in one of India’s longest running sitcoms.

With Ranu Bangur

The 43rd session of An Authors Afternoon was, for the second time, after Anupam Kher, held at 2 pm instead of the usual 4 pm. However, the sultry hot summer weather did not dampen the spirits of the invitees who turned up well before time to attend the session. Dr Lodha most talked about parenting or rather “un-parenting” and related it with some of her life’s experiences and learnings.

Dr Swati Lodha has written a couple of books including, Don't Raise Your Children-Raise Yourself, Why Women are What They Are and Come On! Get Set Go. She has received quite a few awards and is the founder of Swash Pvt Ltd, which offers training courses to youth, professionals and women. Her husband, Shailesh Lodha’s sense of wit and humour was contagious right from the word go.

Swati’s latest venture, Life Lemonade, offers corporate training workshops across India for behaviour design, leadership and motivation, life transformation, women empowerment and parenting. The audience, which had a good many number of parents, mostly mothers, actively participated and raised interesting questions on parenting.

I shall be leaving for Jaipur today to attend a wedding function at the J W Marriott.

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