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Sohaila Kapur

Sohaila Kapur is a freelance journalist, author, playwright, lyricist, actor and director. She has written for all the top newspapers and magazines of the country and has collaborated with Shekhar Kapur and A. R. Rahman as a writer-lyricist for a musical titled 'Why', for Expo 2020 in Dubai. Sohaila’s plays have been performed in festivals here and abroad. Today she is a busy actor on the OTT circuit

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OF WOMEN, BY WOMEN….TWO BOOK REVIEWS

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