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Lata Jagtiani is a Mumbai based author of several books, including Temple Bells and Other Stories, Bhagavad Gita in 365 Days, Sindhi Reflections, Mumbai Terror Attacks, O.P. Nayyar King of Melody, Dada’s Wisdom Guide the Film Perspectives. She has been a freelance journalist published by The Times of India, DNA, Free Press Journal, the Indian Express, The Independent, etc.

Lata Jagtiani schooled at the Walsingham House School in Mumbai and studied English Literature from Jai Hind College, Mumbai. She did her post-graduation from the University of Mumbai and went on to lecture at Jai Hind College and K P B Hinduja College of Mumbai. In Dubai she lectured at the senior college at The India High School and travelled abroad and learnt about other countries and cultures on her visits. Interested in learning more about the world she joined TWA, Sabena Airlines and KLM. Her exposure to the world made her much more reflective and she pursued expressing herself through articles sent to newspapers on current affairs and even several deep subjects such as spirituality and religion and politics. She then authored her first book of short stories, ‘Temple Bells and Other Stories’ in 1996. This was followed by her study of the Gita which she simplified over seven years and came out with Bhagavad Gita in 365 Days. Her interest in History ( her graduation had been in English Literature and History) drove her to research the Sindhi Experience of the Partition and she interviewed 140 Sindhi Hindu migrants and chornicled their experiences for posterity in her book ‘Sindhi Reflections’ which has come to be the gold standard on the subject of the exodus of Sindhi Hindus on and after 1947.