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Award winning author connects with womenfolk through her writing

Her repertoire comprises poems and novels,each of which give voice to those whose predicament goes unheard. “This has a lot to do with experiences of my life and the ups and downs we have seen as a family,” says writer Kusum Ansal,winner of litterateur award by the Hindi Akademi,Delhi and Sahitya Bhushan by the Hindi Sans-than of Uttar Pradesh. To her credit are books like Tapasi in which she has portrayed the life of widows in Vrindavan. Ek Aur Panchvati,which was adapted as a film by Basu Chatterji for its bold theme of a Gorakhpur girl expressing her choice of partner. Ansal writes in Hindi,English and Punjabi. “I have tried to present the ills a woman suffers as members of society choose to remain mute spectators,” said the author,in Lucknow with her builder husband Sushil Ansal to announce the foundation of an ISKCON temple in the township they are constructing on the Sultanpur road. “Our association with ISKCON goes back a long way,when Srila Prabhupada its founder used to visit our home in Aligarh,” she says.