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|name= Ganga Bharani Vasudevan<br />
|occupation= Blogger; Author<br />
|genre= [[Fiction]]-[[thriller (genre)|thriller]], [[Romance novel|romance]]<br />
|notableworks= A Sip of Love and a Sip of Coffee (2016)''<br />''A Minute to Death (2015)''<br />''Just You, Me and A Secret (2012)''<br />
|website= {{url|http://gangabharani.com/}}<br />
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'''Ganga Bharani Vasudevan''' (also known as '''Ganga Bharani''') is an Indian blogger-turned-writer.<ref name="IANS 2015">{{cite news |title=Wish to pen a book? Make a splash with blogging |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/life-style/wish-to-pen-a-book-make-a-splash-with-blogging/ |access-date=25 April 2021 |work=The Indian Express |agency=[[Indo-Asian News Service]] |date=September 8, 2015}}</ref> She is the author of the books ''Just You, Me and A Secret'' (2012), ''A Minute to Death ''(2015), ''A Sip of Love and a Sip of Coffee'' (2016) and ''Murder In The Elevator ''(2018).<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
As a child, Ganga was encouraged by her father to read newspaper opinion pieces and to write.<ref name=":0"/> She began contributing opinion articles to Your Opinion Matters on NXGN at the age of 15.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Padmanabhan|first=Geeta|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/it-girl-ganga-bharani-on-her-literary-journey/article14322836.ece|title=Words, lines and thoughts|date=August 16, 2017|newspaper=The Hindu|access-date=30 December 2017}}</ref><ref name="IANS 2015"/> She also started blogging in 2006, starting with material that was not accepted by newspapers.<ref name=":0"/><ref name="Ramakrishnan 2016"/><ref name="IANS 2015"/> After about five years, she started writing short stories and became interested in writing a book.<ref name="IANS 2015"/> She wrote the first chapters of her first book on her blog.<ref name="Ratnakumar 2015">{{Cite news|last=Ratnakumar|first=Evelyn|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/blog-it-may-win-you-a-book-contract/article7398428.ece|date=July 8, 2015|title=Blog! It may win you a book contract|newspaper=The Hindu|access-date=30 December 2017}}</ref><ref name=":0"/> After many rejections from publishers, she was contacted by a publisher about writing a book.<ref name="IANS 2015"/><ref name=":0"/> <br />
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She has won a variety of contests for her blogging, and was shortlisted for the UK Blog Awards in 2015.<ref name=":0" /> One of her short stories has been made into the short film ''Bhimbam''.<ref name=":0"/> Two of her short films, ''Tiny Steps'' and ''Candles'', won awards at the WE CARE Film Festival.<ref name=":0"/><br />
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Ganga is also a technical analyst.<ref name="Samuel 2016">{{cite news |last1=Samuel |first1=Rufus John |title=Sharing a secret |url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/nxg/sharing-a-secret/article5862475.ece |access-date=26 April 2021 |work=The Hindu |date=May 21, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Ramakrishnan 2016">{{cite news |last1=Ramakrishnan |first1=Deepa H. |last2=Venugopal |first2=Vasudha |title=No desk job can keep them from their passion: writing |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/no-desk-job-can-keep-them-from-their-passion-writing/article5539237.ece |access-date=26 April 2021 |work=The Hindu |date=May 13, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.deccanchronicle.com/150729/lifestyle-booksart/article/%E2%80%98i-love-playing-guessing-games-readers%E2%80%99|last=Gowri|first=Devika|date=July 29, 2015|title=‘I love playing guessing games with readers’|newspaper=Deccan Chronicle|access-date=30 December 2017}}</ref><br />
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