BlueRoseONE presents Valuting Over by Vanessa Ohri
Channel: BlueRose Publishers
Date: 2023-03-04

About the author: 
Vanessa Ohri is an author, poet and theatre personality. She began her creative journey as a copywriter with Ogilvy, Kolkata, then went on to freelance as a creative consultant, also teaching Advertising at NIFT, Delhi. Her first book, ‘Play it Right’ containing stage ready plays and poems for dramatization, was published by Scholastic in 2015. She is also the author of ‘The Deluge’, a short story that was part of the anthology, ‘Escape Velocity’, published by Write; Beyond in 2018. Her poem on Inclusion, ‘I Am Special’, written for the NGO Trinayani, has been translated into Hindi, Bengali, Marathi and Braille, and has featured as part of the CBSE syllabus in an earlier edition of the main course English text book for class 10. Vanessa is also a co-founder of the Gurgaon based theatre company, Urban Suburban Productions, where she has conceptualized, scripted, directed and acted in a host of highly successful theatrical productions.

She describes herself as a compulsive thinker and an eternal optimist. Penning her thoughts in words and pictures, is something she loves doing daily.

About the book: 
VAULTING OVER attempts to make some sense of the chaos around us, through what the author calls, ‘scribbles scrawls’ of life as she sees it - a collection of poems and sketches on contemporary subjects that provokes us to stop, think and weigh in. A passion project born of the belief that our world actually looks better when we adjust our perspective. Because sometimes, all we need for that happy landing is a leap of faith and a brave new overview…