Janaki Sastry was born into an Indian freedom fighter’s family. Those were the most turbulent times of the country. The young girl remembers them as exciting and confusing. She went to school in Free India. She studied M.A. (Psychology) at Ravenshaw College, Cuttack, and B.Ed. at Delhi University. After moving to England with her husband, she studied M.A.(Linguistics) at Leeds University.
Her teaching career began in India and continued in England. She enjoys meeting people of various cultures. She believes that it has broadened her outlook on life in general. She admires how similar many cultures are.
In the mid-eighties, she became an author with the Story Chest reading scheme. She sincerely thanks two people for her entry into writing: Pam Hutchinson (The Story Chest), who gave her the first break to be an author and Barbara Applin for (Caribbean Readers).
Later, she began to write short stories in Telugu, her mother tongue. Various stories got published in Indian magazines.
She enjoys her journey of three decades in India, followed by five decades in England, with immense enthusiasm.
The Whirlpool of Destiny
This story explores the meaning of humanity through the lives of those bound by tradition, superstition, and the long-standing feud between two villages in a Himalayan valley. The bitterness between them has endured since the days of the British Raj. The Holy Man of the Himalayas gifts a silver flut...
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