Sunayana Kachroo
kashmiri poet
Sunayana Kachroo is an Indian-American poet, film-writer, lyricist and a columnist.
Education
Sunayana Kachroo was born and raised in Kashmir, India into a Kashmiri Pandit family. She received her education in Jammu and Kashmir and Maharashtra, and earned a master’s in computer science from Savitribai Phule Pune University in Pune. Her father, Chaman Kachroo, was also a poet known for his Urdu Nazm titled Charcha.
Career
In 2000, Sunayana moved to the US and began working as an analyst in New York City. Her first book, Waqt Se Pare- Beyond Time, was published in 2013.
She has also written lyrics for songs sung by artists like Sonu Nigam, Shankar Mahadevan, Ali Sethi, Sunidhi Chauhan, Hariharan, Harshdeep Kaur, Rashmeet Kaur, Anuradha Palakurthi, Jasraj Joshi, Hrishikesh Ranade, and Archana Kamath.
Sunayana developed an interest in poetry at the age of 15, trying different forms like Kavita, English Poems, Nazms, and Dohe. She started as a featured poet at the South Asian Institute of Harvard in 2014 and later shared the stage with Punjabi poet Nirupama Dutt at the Bangalore Literature Festival. Since 2015, she has been a featured poet at the annual South Asian Poetry reading at Harvard University hosted by the South Asian Institute.
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