I. Me. Myself.

Natasha Sharma writes novels that make you uncomfortable and essays that make you think. Or vice versa, depending on the day.

Her novels—The Seventh Swar (Pan Macmillan India, 2026) and Beneath Divided Skies (Vishwakarma Publications, 2024) — tackle mystery, historical secrets, and rom-com, Partition trauma, and the bureaucratic violence dressed up as “rescue.” Wind Beneath Your Wings fetched her a Certificate of Excellence from the York Centre for Asian Research (York University) in 2022, whereas her short story The White Noise Lullaby won the inaugural 2024 Asian Prize for Short Stories. The following year, she was invited to judge the Asian Prize for Short Story 2025 edition, proof that winning once apparently qualifies you to have opinions about everyone else’s work. Nine of her stories have appeared in anthologies across India, the UK, and Singapore, because apparently, she likes collecting publication credits the way some people collect fridge magnets.

By day, she runs her IT firm in Pune (someone has to pay the bills). By night, she’s writing essays on gender discrimination (MoneyControl), and the cultural aftershocks of Partition and women’s issues (eShe). Her Substack, Silence Unrescued, is where she processes grief, invisible labor, and the stories that polite society would rather she kept quiet.

Natasha is represented by Lalitha Ravindran of First Forays Literary Agency and holds a three-book contract with Pan Macmillan India. Beneath Divided Skies was selected for the MAMI WordToScreen Market in 2024, and has been the subject of a paper (PDPM IIITDM Jabalpur) analyzing it through Judith Butler’s feminist theory framework and a PhD dissertation (St Xavier’s University, Kolkata). She’s still processing that last bit.

Natasha lives in Pune with her husband, daughter Naisha, and Biscuit the Labrador (who occasionally appears as a character in her novels because good dogs deserve literary immortality).

She’s a firm believer in the power of rudraksha beads and the spiritual power of food.

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