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Shilpa Menon (born 27 December 1978 in Mauritius) is an entrepreneur and since 2014, a romance novelist. She is one of only few independent authors from Mauritius to have published her work to an international audience and received critical acclaim.

Life and early career
Shilpa Seewoo was born on 27 December 1978 in Mauritius. She did her graduation and subsequent post graduation in Chemical Engineering at the prestigious University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Her masters thesis is a widely used piece of work relating to water treatment techniques used by mines in South Africa.

Her thesis focused on the Slurry Precipitation And Recycle Reverse Osmosis (SPARRO) process

She subsequently became an entrepreneur after a few years of working in the petroleum industry and founded her own international luxury lifestyle brand in 2008.

Writing career
Shilpa became an author in 2014, her book Scars Do Heal was published in December 2015.

Her motivation to write was to highlight a profound issue concerning rising violence against women and the plot was inspired by the infamous Nirbhaya incident 2012 Delhi gang rape