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Snehil Niharika
Snehil Niharika (born 30th January 1997) is an Indian author. She is the author of the best selling novel That’ll Be Our Song (2023), her debut novel.

Born in Patna, Bihar, Niharika was in school when she got the idea of her dream novel Salad Bowl, the book that dealt with bigotry, misogyny, mental illness and childhood traumas. She dropped school and worked on her manuscript for seven years, the period followed by academic negligence, depression, anxiety and death of her dear ones, it was that year when she was clinically diagnosed with OCD. To cope she took a break from Salad Bowl and wrote That’ll Be Our Song, a partial autobiography, as she addressed in her inspiring talk at TedX, Hansraj College. The novel follows the story of delusional Arya, who is fond of falling in love and finding stories whenever life gets hard on her. As in the past she never personally reached out to her crushes. Arya would rather text-bombard them on the internet, and then write a book about them, sitting in her room, never having to to face them in the real life. But one winter, one terrible and wonderful year, Arya runs into her old internet crush, Siddhartha, causing her to deal with her behind the screen past, face to face-A Book, five hundred texts, three love letters, a mix tape, past love and vulnerabilities. It certainly turns out to be embarrassing, heartbreaking, and almost a complete disaster. Her novel was called hot chocolate and a jumper for winter, by The Times Of India addictive and promising by The Pioneer. Her exceptional work has also garnered critical acclaim from esteemed publications such as Outlook, and Mid-day.

It stayed at the top of the different Amazon best selling charts for twelve weeks.

After dropping school, Snehil has further enhanced her skills through various online courses and workshops, including filmmaking at the New York Film Academy, creative writing at Oxford University Continued Education, screenplay writing and scriptwriting at Michigan State University, and content marketing at the University of California.