Author's Profile
Born in the cosmopolitan city of Mumbai, Janhavi Malhotra is a current inhabitant of the union territory of Chandigarh having lived in Mumbai, Hyderabad and New Delhi previously. The best part about moving she says is making friends country over, yet keeping the old. This teen who has her head firmly on her shoulders and feet on the ground, likes music, movies and getting together with friends. Some of her favourite artists are Pearl Jam, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and Guns N Roses. But reading and writing are her passion.

A student of St. Kabir Public School, Janhavi is in class 10. Having read a few books on the behavioural sciences such as The Minds Of Billy Milligan; Many Lives, Many Masters and Psychopaths, amongst others; she aspires to be a psychologist someday and would like to work with children.

The fourteen year old has recently compiled a collection of her poems, ‘Aloft on Wings of Grit’, published by Little Magic

Words, a non-profit charter that aim to nurture young and gifted talent like Janhavi. With an avowed cause of promoting rural education, this publishing house aspires to bring out more books - for children, by children. The book has been titled after a poem in it, “Wings of Grit” that describes a caterpillar’s steady determination to soar into the blue.

She now writes with a maturity that belies her age. The underlying themes of her poems are separation, poverty, child labour and death to name a few. Her first poem about a cockroach at age seven got her to think in rhyme, but except for a few odd ones- poetry took a backseat , till an assignment in class eight brought it all back again. “I Am Me”, the first poem in her book rekindled her instincts. Away from school while on medication, Janhavi’s upbeat attitude and resilience nurtured her talent, which has taken shape in the form of this book. She would next like to try her hand at short stories.