Shobha Warrier

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{{short description|Indian journalist and author}}
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'''Shobha Warrier''' is an Indian journalist and author based in [[Chennai]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Revanna |first=Ananya |date=12 January 2018 |title=With a conscience |work=[[Business Line]] |url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/books/making-dreams-come-true/article9474015.ece |url-status=live |access-date=4 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504120429/https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/books/making-dreams-come-true/article9474015.ece |archive-date=4 May 2021}}</ref> She began her career as a creative writer, with publishing a number of short stories in [[Malayalam]]: "Ramakundam", "Meghana", and "Jalavidya". In 1996, she was awarded with the Lalithambika Sahitya Awards (named after the author and social reformer [[Lalithambika Antharjanam]]) for the lattermost, which was later translated to [[Kannada]] and [[Telugu language|Telugu]].<ref name="Prime Point Foundation">{{Cite web |last=Srinivasan |first=K. |date=25 December 2013 |title=Book Release: Shobha Warrier's "Diary of a journalist" |url=http://www.primepointfoundation.in/2013/12/book-release-shobha-warrier-of.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504120430/https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oswald:400,300,700&subset=latin,latin-ext |archive-date=4 May 2021 |access-date=4 May 2021 |website=Prime Point Foundation}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-03-30 |title=Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Novel N. Mohanan |url=http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/sp/Writers/ksa/Awards/novel.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109145935/http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/sp/Writers/ksa/Awards/novel.htm |archive-date=9 November 2013 |access-date=4 May 2021 |website=[[Kerala Sahitya Akademi]]}}</ref> Warrier, however, felt that she did not receive any recognition with the work and subsequently became a journalist after getting persuasion from her friends.<ref name="14 women">{{Cite news |last=S. |first=Srivatsan |date=17 October 2018 |title=Shobha Warrier’s profile of 14 women entrepreneurs |work=[[The Hindu]] |url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-authors/shobha-warriers-profile-of-14-women-entrepreneurs/article25246738.ece |url-status=live |access-date=4 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504120429/https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-authors/shobha-warriers-profile-of-14-women-entrepreneurs/article25246738.ece |archive-date=4 May 2021}}</ref> She is serving as the associate editorial director of the entertainment website [[Rediff.com]].<ref name="Prime Point Foundation" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Nath |first=Parsathy J. |date=16 January 2017 |title=With a conscience |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/With-a-conscience/article17043579.ece |url-status=live |access-date=4 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504120434/https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/With-a-conscience/article17043579.ece |archive-date=4 May 2021}}</ref>

== Writing career ==
Warrier has authored four books, all of which were published by Vitasta Publishing. The first is ''The Diary of A Journalist: The Little Flower Girl and Others'' (2013), an anthological book containing 36 stories about her meeting with several people during her journalistic career. The idea of the book first came up while she was visiting an ashram for children with [[HIV]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Parthasarathy |first=Anusha |date=4 March 2013 |title=Poignant tales |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-authors/poignant-tales/article4475083.ece |url-status=live |access-date=4 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130308171216/http://www.thehindu.com/books/books-authors/poignant-tales/article4475083.ece |archive-date=8 March 2013}}</ref> She next wrote ''His Days with Bapu Gandhi's Personal Secretary Recalls'' (2016), chronicling the life of [[Mahatma Gandhi]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Warrier |first=Shobha |title=His Days With Bapu: Gandhi's Personal Secretary Recalls |date=1 January 2016 |publisher=Vitasta Publishing |isbn=978-93-82711-87-2}}</ref> ''Dreamchasers: Entrepreneurs from the South of the Vindhyas'' came as her third book and was released in 2017.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Varshinii |first=Amrutha |date=10 January 2017 |title='Tamil Nadu a fertile ground for entrepreneurs' |work=[[The Times of India]] |agency=Times News Network |location=Chennai, India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/tamil-nadu-a-fertile-ground-for-entrepreneurs/articleshow/56462380.cms |url-status=live |access-date=4 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820064257/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/tamil-nadu-a-fertile-ground-for-entrepreneurs/articleshow/56462380.cms |archive-date=20 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Nath |first=Parsathy J. |date=12 January 2017 |title=Journalism with a conscience |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/Journalism-with-a-conscience/article17027346.ece |url-status=live |access-date=4 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504120453/https://www.thehindu.com/books/Journalism-with-a-conscience/article17027346.ece |archive-date=4 May 2021}}</ref> ''Dreamchasers: Women Entrepreneurs from the South of the Vindhyas'' (2018) is her fourth book, which details about a total of 14 women entrepreneurs.<ref name="14 women" /> The book's development started in 1997 after Warrier met the academic [[Ashok Jhunjhunwala]]. She told a ''[[The Hindu|Hindu]]'' interviewer, "I was drawn to it because of Jhunjhunwala. He had an incubation centre at [the [[Indian Institute of Technology Madras]]] long before we started using terms like ‘startup’. When I interviewed him, he spoke about the centre and wanted me to meet a few entrepreneurs."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Trimurthy |first=Priyanka |date=18 October 2018 |title=Their stories need to be told: Shobha Warrier on her new book on women entrepreneurs |work=[[The News Minute]] |url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/their-stories-need-be-told-shobha-warrier-her-new-book-women-entrepreneurs-90162 |url-status=live |access-date=4 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190214073956/https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/their-stories-need-be-told-shobha-warrier-her-new-book-women-entrepreneurs-90162 |archive-date=14 February 2019}}</ref>

== Bibliography ==
* {{Cite book |last=Warrier |first=Shobha |title=The Diary of A Journalist: The Little Flower Girl and Others |date=1 August 2013 |publisher=Vitasta Publishing |isbn=978-81-92535-42-5}}
* {{Cite book |last=Warrier |first=Shobha |title=His Days With Bapu: Gandhi's Personal Secretary Recalls |date=1 January 2016 |publisher=Vitasta Publishing |isbn=978-93-82711-87-2}}
* {{Cite book |last=Warrier |first=Shobha |title=Dreamchasers: Entrepreneurs from the South of the Vindhyas |date=1 January 2017 |publisher=Vitasta Publishing |isbn=978-93-82711-61-2}}
* {{Cite book |last=Warrier |first=Shobha |title=Dreamchasers: Women Entrepreneurs from the South of the Vindhyas |date=5 September 2018 |publisher=Vitasta Publishing |isbn=978-93-864733-4-9}}

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