Sriram Ramakrishnan is a software architect by profession who hails from Chennai, a beautiful city in South India. He had a brief stint in Germany and Cyprus in the mid-2000s, before moving to the USA, where he has been residing for the past 15 years. He is an avid traveler who has visited more than 25 countries, has been on several backpacking road trips around the world, including England, Scotland, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Germany, France, and all the 50 states of the USA. Apart from traveling, he loves writing, and riding his Harley Davidson motorcycle. He never misses his daily meditation and yoga practice.
His motto in life, “Don’t hurt yourself. Don’t hurt others. With these 2 rules, do whatever you want in life”.
Johanna Neuman's latest book, The Concert: A Novel About Musicians Who Defied Hitler's Siege of Leningrad, is about a group of women who were caught between Hitler's fascism and Stalin's communism. They survived by embracing their creativity and their families. An earlier book, Gilded Suffragists, tells the story more than 200 women of enormous wealth who joined the fight to win women the right to vote. With names like Astor, Belmont and Vanderbilt, they were the media darlings of their day, covered for every excess of fashion and decor. And when they risked their social standing to win the vote for women, it was like Oprah Winfrey blessing a cause today. It popularized the movement.
An award-winning journalist with 30 years of experience i
