INDU BALACHANDRAN is a humour columnist, travel writer and author of the award-winning ‘My Grandmother Can’t Cook!’ ( winner of the national Jarul Awards Best Children’s Book, 2023). She’s also authored two best selling books, ‘The Oops&Downs of Advertising’, and ‘Runaway Writers’. Her writings have appeared in the NewYork Times, Sunday Hindu, Lonely Planet, Firstpost, and six anthologies of stories. She was formerly VP & Creative Chief at
J WalterThompson, Chennai with a 30-year career in Advertising, working on leading brands like Pepsi, Ponds, Unilevers. She now writes regularly for Readers Digest, Deccan Herald and does whimsical paper collages whenever she runs out of words.
