Lalita Iyer
Lalita Iyer | |
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Occupation | Author, journalist, columnist |
Language | English |
Notable works | I'm Pregnant, Not Terminally Ill, You Idiot! The Whole Shebang: Sticky Bits of Being a Woman Sridevi: Queen of Hearts |
Lalita Iyer is an Indian author, journalist, and columnist based in Mumbai, India. She has written several books, including I'm Pregnant, Not Terminally Ill, You Idiot!, The Whole Shebang: Sticky Bits of Being a Woman, and Sridevi: Queen of Hearts. She has also written children's literature and is the author of the blogs Chickwit and Mommygolightly.
Early life and education
She graduated from the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai (formerly, UDCT Mumbai), with an M.Pharm in Medicinal and Natural Products (pharmacognosy).[citation needed] By 2019, she completed a post-graduate diploma in Dance Movement Therapy from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences.[1]
Career
Iyer began her career as a pharmacist.
Her first book, I’m Pregnant, Not Terminally Ill, You Idiot! (2013)[2] and The Whole Shebang: Sticky Bits of Being a Woman (2017), both offer advice based on her personal experience.[4][9] Her biography of Sridevi, titled Sridevi: Queen of Hearts, was released in 2018.[10] She has also written two books for children: The Boy Who Swallowed a Nail and Other Stories (2016) and Thatha's Pumpkin (2020).
In 2018, she wrote a post for the "Happily Unmarried" awareness campaign on social media by the Majlis Legal Centre, describing an overview of her career, dating, marriage, and single motherhood.[11]
Critical reception
I’m Pregnant, Not Terminally Ill, You Idiot!
Shriya Mohan writes for
The Whole Shebang: Sticky Bits of Being a Woman
In ThePrint, Sabah K writes, "Setting off on a conversational tone, the book makes the reader see themselves through the life journey of the author (and society's constructs of "womanhood") – as she navigates periods, work, friendships, sex, marriage and motherhood", and "the chapters on friendships, finance, and sex make for good standalone reads, with their lucid and honest advice and pointers that hit home."[9] Neha Bhatt writes in Scroll.in, "Having struck out on her own decades ago, gone job-hopping every few years, dating both kinds of men – shampoos and conditioners (read the book to find out what that means!) – finding "the one" later than most others around her and then losing him to find herself while making solo parenting work, gives her story many layers with rough edges, never really treading the conventional line."[13] According to Julie Merin Varughese in The Hindu, "it seems a little counter-productive to hear a strong, modern woman like Iyer go on and on about breasts and waist and a** even though her point finally may be that she has made peace with her body issues."[12]
Sridevi: Queen of Hearts
According to Latha Venkatraman of
Selected works
- I’m Pregnant, Not Terminally Ill, You Idiot!, Manjul Publishing, 2013, ISBN 9789381506301
- The Boy Who Swallowed a Nail and Other Stories, Scholastic India, 2016, ISBN 9789385887260
- The Whole Shebang: Sticky Bits of Being a Woman, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017, ISBN 9789386432278
- Sridevi: Queen of Hearts, Westland Publications, 2018, ISBN 9789387578593
- Thatha's Pumpkin, Karadi Tales, 2020, ISBN 9788193903377[17]
References
- ^ Snigdha (7 August 2019). "I Now Know That My Body Never Lies: Lalita Iyer On Dance Movement Therapy". SheThePeople. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
- ^ a b Punj, Deepshikha (12 July 2013). "Overrated, life-changing: Getting pregnant and getting real". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
- ^ "Lalita Iyer". The Hindu. 4 February 2013. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
- ^ The Hindustan Times. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
- ^ a b Kala, Leher (14 September 2013). "The Trimester Trap". The Indian Express. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
- ^ Vachharajani, Bijal (24 February 2016). "What's in your tiffin?". The Hindu. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
- ^ Motiani, Priya (1 August 2016). "Mommy-Go-Lightly Founder Lalita Iyer Shares With JWB Her Mommy-Go-Crazy Moment". Jaipur Women Blog - Stories of Indian Women. Archived from the original on 25 October 2016. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
- ^ "Lalita Iyer". Neev Literature Festival. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
- ^ a b K., Sabah (28 October 2017). "'The Whole Shebang' review: A light read that repackages age-old stories". ThePrint. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
- ^ "When Sridevi called her smash hit film Himmatwala 'bad luck'". The Indian Express. PTI. 22 October 2018. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
- ^ Chaudhuri, Zinnia Ray (21 October 2018). "'Happily unmarried': An online project reminds Indian women to celebrate singlehood". Scroll.in. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
- ^ a b Varughese, Julie Merin (30 September 2017). "Victoria's boring secrets". The Hindu. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
- ^ Bhatt, Neha (23 September 2017). "This book will make many women feel the chaotic, confusing and very happy life in it is their own". Scroll.in. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
- The Deccan Herald. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
- ^ Chintamani, Gautam (27 November 2018). "Queen of Hearts review: Lalita Iyer's biography explores what Sridevi means to her fans rather than what it meant to be Sridevi". Firstpost. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
- The Hindustan Times. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
- ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
External links
- Chickwit
- mommygolightly
- 'Husbands are easy targets for steam-letting' (excerpt from I'm Pregnant, Not Terminally Ill, You Idiot, Rediff.com, 2013)
- Excerpt on "Work-Life Balance" from The Whole Shebang (SheThePeople, 2017)
- Why Sridevi Inspired The LGBT: An Excerpt From Sridevi: Queen of Hearts (SheThePeople, 2018)
- How Sridevi made lightning strike with ‘Hawa Hawai’ (excerpt from Sridevi: Queen of Hearts, Mint, 2018)