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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
It is the story of two teenage girls, Mannat and Eva, brought together by fate and the shared trauma of their parents’ crumbling relationships. Their friendship helps them forge tools for survival and delineate identities for themselves from amongst the debris of their shattered childhood. With deep compassion, the author probes their uncomprehending pain and fears, their self-doubt, their loss of innocence, and their anger at a world that has betrayed them.
The author draws on his experience as an adolescent Counsellor and as a relationship coach to bring into searing focus the inarticulate pain that children go through in a dysfunctional marriage. Whether it’s an everyday ego clash between wife and husband or a protracted legal battle for divorce, either can win, but the children always lose.
The author navigates the reader’s attention to the impact of such conflicts on children. He offers perhaps the only possible key to resolving marital conflict in such cases—the understanding that becoming a parent is a choice that comes with the implicit clause of subsuming one’s own interests in favour of the young life until it reaches emotional adulthood.
Even though they are diametrically opposed, good and bad marriages go hand in hand—they are two sides of the same coin. These two names wobble between the two ends of a continuum. We label them as Good or Bad based on our circumstances, perspectives, and wisdom.
Kultaran Chhatwal
The author, Kultaran Chhatwal, holds a master’s degree in Applied Psychology and a PG Diploma in Counselling and Behaviour Modification. He is also an international member of the American Psychological Association. Besides, he is a Certified Career Mentor.
With a rich experience in corporate training, he later shifted his focus to adolescents and married couples.
Kultaran Chhatwal spent his formative years in the Dehradun Valley and is presently based in Chandigarh and Sharjah. As a relationship coach, he enables married couples to hone their relationship-building skills to heal their relationships and create harmony, bliss, and true companionship.
A subject close to his heart is to minimise the wide-ranging and far-reaching damage to children due to parental discord. Though he does not advise the couples to stay within dysfunctional marriages for the sake of their children, he strongly advocates accepting the inevitable by negotiating the jointly scripted terms of separation that give the highest priority to the emotional well-being of a child.
He has worked as an apex-level master trainer in the State Bank of India and toured extensively throughout India to impart training to the trainers. He has conducted a series of workshops on the intricacies of relationships and conducted a series of radio sessions on the relationships.
He is associated with India’s leading newspaper, The Times of India, as a freelance workshop consultant. He has vast experience conducting group workshops in schools, colleges, and universities for students, parents, and teachers in the northern states of Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Chandigarh, Uttarakhand, and J&K.
