Ananya Mukherjee is a former business editor, award-winning author, storyteller, and senior corporate communications leader. Her books Ardh-Satya, The Half Truth & Other Stories, and An Unborn Desire have received rave reviews and five-star ratings from the Indian and international media, critics, and readers. An alumnus of Stanford University Graduate Business School, Ananya is also a theatre actor, script writer, and a trained dancer. As a show anchor and storyteller under the stage name of Jujuburi, she is a known figure in the cultural and literary circles in Singapore and India.
The various stories in ‘An Unborn Desire’ take you on a multicultural rollercoaster that has diverse characters and subjects, but with the quintessential twist in the tale, where she creates a fascinating and poignant vignette of human emotions. Find out what happens to a happy young man when he challenges a past-life regression therapist whose discovery of his origin changes his life forever. Uncover the secret inspiration of an old artist of abstract paintings in Paris, and then join a woman from Cape Town, who makes a journey to Istanbul and Prague in the hope of self-discovery. Revel in the story of a lady who alters the face of Egyptian history forever by finding her way through a maze of conspiracies, and a girl who, centuries later in India, inspires an entire society to act most unpredictably. Discover the moving shadows of urban Singapore and unveil a predetermined truth as a taxi driver in Saigon meanders through a labyrinth of coincidences.
