Shukla Lal

Author at 80

Author at 80

Shukla Lal, 81, lives in Delhi. She wrote her first two novels in the last 12 months (2018) as a celebration of her eightieth birthday. She is writing her third novel. Shukla spent her childhood in the folds of a close knit Punjabi family from Amritsar. Her father’s transferable job, took her family to Lahore. After a fortuitous escape from the troubles of Partition, her father’s postings gave her a Bharat Darshan, before eventually reaching Calcutta (now Kolkata) during its neo Independence heydays. After schooling in Amritsar, Madras (now Chennai) and Ooty, Shukla, completed her BABT froRead More...

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Floating Logs

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A novel eighty years in the making.

In Floating Logs, Calcutta comes alive in sparkling colours playing the eternal paramour to the ever-changing story of a young man who learns to live, laugh and love. Life never follows a perfect plan. Sublimating the pains and tribulations of the city and its people, this is the story of Meher, of grace and beneficence to uplift the soul.

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Shukla Lal, 81, lives in Delhi. She wrote her first two novels in the last 12 months (2018) as a celebration of her eightieth birthday. She is writing her third novel.
Shukla spent her childhood in the folds of a close knit Punjabi family from Amritsar. Her father’s transferable job, took her family to Lahore. After a fortuitous escape from the troubles of Partition, her father’s postings gave her a Bharat Darshan, before eventually reaching Calcutta (now Kolkata) during its neo Independence heydays. After schooling in Amritsar, Madras (now Chennai) and Ooty, Shukla, completed her BABT from Loreto College, Calcutta and then promptly found the love of her life and got busy with raising a family. Her life’s mission is teaching and care giving for children with special needs. 
Joyful wit and multilingual expressiveness is a family trait she inherited from her parents and shares with her accomplished siblings. Her choice of stories and writing style could best be understood from her own words “I am a romantic and an idealist by nature and find true romance scattered everywhere irrespective of class, creed, religion, nationality or age”.

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