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Lalitha Gudala is an indie author whose work is rooted in emotional honesty and quiet resilience. After earning her Bachelor of Technology and MBA in Canada, she built a career in consulting as a Project Manager and Grants Writer. Life abroad taught her persistence, but it also came with challenges, years of part-time work, health struggles, and the constant effort to secure a role that matched her skills. Forced to pause when her health declined, Lalitha returned to India to recover. During this quiet period, she rediscovered writing as part of her recovery and reflection. Revisiting an old dRead More...
Lalitha Gudala is an indie author whose work is rooted in emotional honesty and quiet resilience. After earning her Bachelor of Technology and MBA in Canada, she built a career in consulting as a Project Manager and Grants Writer. Life abroad taught her persistence, but it also came with challenges, years of part-time work, health struggles, and the constant effort to secure a role that matched her skills.
Forced to pause when her health declined, Lalitha returned to India to recover. During this quiet period, she rediscovered writing as part of her recovery and reflection. Revisiting an old draft from the lockdown years unexpectedly led her back to storytelling, eventually evolving into her debut novel, The Glass In-Between.
Her writing is shaped by lived experiences, moments of survival, imperfect love, and the inner strength it takes to rebuild a life from the inside out. Lalitha writes for readers who crave authenticity, tenderness, and endings that feel real rather than convenient.
Outside her writing desk, Lalitha is fuelled more by old Telugu melodies than by coffee. She paints and sketches far more often than she reads, believing she was built to create rather than consume. A vintage soul at heart, she loves anything antique - stories, objects, and moments that carry the essence of time within them. On quieter days, you’ll find her cooking or baking her way through different cuisines, treating the kitchen like another canvas.
Her hope is simple: that her stories remind people that healing isn’t cinematic, love isn’t always linear, and choosing yourself is its own kind of triumph.
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Rhea grows up in a world that praises fairness and mocks girls like her: dusky, soft-spoken, easy to overlook. So when someone finally treats her with gentleness, she mistakes it for safety, for belonging, for love. But when that trust shatters, a quiet crack forms inside her, the glass she will spend years learning how to hold without breaking.
College brings new friendships, new routines, and eventually Aditya, a boy who makes her feel chosen again i
Rhea grows up in a world that praises fairness and mocks girls like her: dusky, soft-spoken, easy to overlook. So when someone finally treats her with gentleness, she mistakes it for safety, for belonging, for love. But when that trust shatters, a quiet crack forms inside her, the glass she will spend years learning how to hold without breaking.
College brings new friendships, new routines, and eventually Aditya, a boy who makes her feel chosen again in stolen glances and warm conversations. Believing life is offering her a second chance, Rhea steps toward it with all the courage she has left.
But even the sweetest beginnings can hide shadows. And sometimes, the people who feel like home turn into the storms we never see coming.
The Glass In-Between is an intimate, emotionally raw portrait of a girl who loves long after her heart has been bruised, who grows through expectations, guilt, and the quiet ache carried by so many Indian women.
This story belongs to every girl who was told to adjust.
Every woman who accepted crumbs and called it love.
Every heart that learned, too late, that gentleness isn’t always safety.
Rhea grows up in a world that praises fairness and mocks girls like her: dusky, soft-spoken, easy to overlook. So when someone finally treats her with gentleness, she mistakes it for safety, for belonging, for love. But when that trust shatters, a quiet crack forms inside her, the glass she will spend years learning how to hold without breaking.
College brings new friendships, new routines, and eventually Aditya, a boy who makes her feel chosen again i
Rhea grows up in a world that praises fairness and mocks girls like her: dusky, soft-spoken, easy to overlook. So when someone finally treats her with gentleness, she mistakes it for safety, for belonging, for love. But when that trust shatters, a quiet crack forms inside her, the glass she will spend years learning how to hold without breaking.
College brings new friendships, new routines, and eventually Aditya, a boy who makes her feel chosen again in stolen glances and warm conversations. Believing life is offering her a second chance, Rhea steps toward it with all the courage she has left.
But even the sweetest beginnings can hide shadows. And sometimes, the people who feel like home turn into the storms we never see coming.
The Glass In-Between is an intimate, emotionally raw portrait of a girl who loves long after her heart has been bruised, who grows through expectations, guilt, and the quiet ache carried by so many Indian women.
This story belongs to every girl who was told to adjust.
Every woman who accepted crumbs and called it love.
Every heart that learned, too late, that gentleness isn’t always safety.
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