19 Years of Shaping Words & Stories
An alumna of the prestigious Officer's Training Academy, Chennai, Capt Yamini Varadaraj-Chowdhury (Retd) is a second-generation retired Army officer, author, editor, national masters' swimming champion, mother and Army wife — not particularly in that order!
Over the course of her 19-year literary career, her writing has been prominently featured across a range of websites, newspapers, and magazines. As the former Executive Editor at Rupa Publications, she has had the privilege of working with authors including former President Pranab Mukherjee, former Vice President M. Hamid Ansari, Dr S. Jaishankar, General Manoj Naravane (Retd), Amitabh Kant, Subramanian Swamy, Salman Khurshid, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Rajiv Kumar, Rajdeep Sardesai, and a host of others. In recognition of her contribution to publishing and literature, she received the Literary Trailblazer Award at the Festival of Womanhood Awards 2025, conferred by Mohanji International (Switzerland).
