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Bio

Munmun Ghosh is a Mumbai-based writer, sitarist, and yoga instructor.

With a 1st class 1st Masters’ degree in English Literature from Mumbai University, she worked as a full-time journalist for a range of publications including Stardust, MOVIE ,The Daily, The Economic Times, Mid-Day, and indya.com for over a decade and was senior editor with CRISIL Ltd for a number of years, till May 2019.

She has also authored 3 novels--
Hushed Voices (2007) that explores the lives of Mumbai’s marginalized classes, Unhooked (2012), spotlighting the metro phenomenon of intellectual mating between the sexes, and Thicker than Blood (2016) based on the dynamics of a marriage and the infertility treatment versus adoption debate.

If she is a compulsive dealer in words, she is also a compulsive musician and has been singing and playing sitar on stage since her childhood. Initiated into sitar as a school girl by Pt. Kartick Kumar, and further tutored by Ustad Azim Khan and Shri Pulak Lahiri, Ghosh has featured in Pt. Kartick Kumar’s sitar concerts in the past and performed solo on television. Having done her Sangeet Visharad in vocal classical music, she sings Tagore's songs as well as old Hindi film melodies with panache.

Besides teaching sitar and giving sitar recitals, Munmun Ghosh, who is also a certified yoga instructor, currently promotes yoga and music therapy.  She also serves as a panelist on CBFC ( Central Board of Film Certification).

Munmun Ghosh can be contacted on mail [email protected]

Instagram handle: munmun_music_yoga