Kusum Choppra
About
Instructor
A writer, journalist, environmentalist, numerologist and an inspired reader, her works like Mastani, Nirbhaya & Others Who Dared, Beyond Diamond Rings and Silver Dreams are a tribute to the power of women. Her long career as a journalist enriched her experiences adding subtle nuances to the characters she creates.
Kusum Choppra
Instructor, Research for Non-fiction
Kusum Choppra is a writer, journalist, environmentalist, numerologist and an inspired reader. Her works like Mastani, Nirbhaya & Others Who Dared, Beyond Diamond Rings and Silver Dreams are a tribute to the power of women. Her long career as a journalist enriched her experiences adding subtle nuances to the characters she creates. Her feminism is never cloaked in submission, rather she is a realist proving that age is just another number as she spreads her energy and experience all around her wide circle of family and friends. philosophy.
Her latest literary adventure was headlining a 10-author collaborative suspense thriller with amazing human angles, titled Altitudinis: Sinners, Seekers & Secrets. Once again reinforcing her genre gypsy tagline to indicate that her capabilities know no bounds and that she has many more stories to unravel. A total peoples’ earthy person telling tales rather than didactic
Jean has a PhD in religious studies. Her extensive research in Gender, Religious Literature and Children’s Literature is widely recognised and she has been invited to several international platforms such as the Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies at Oxford University, UK; Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, University of California at Los Angeles, USA; and at the Dominican International School, Taipei, Taiwan. She is currently studying Comparative Religious Writing.
By her own admission, this is not as important to her as her love for the written word, for the quest for meaning, for the observation of Life.
Jean loves to talk and write about things she observes and feels. She also loves to learn. She believes that “we teach best what we most need to learn”, and is looking for to an exploratory journey of learning and fun with the participants of her poetry course Loving the Logic and Magic of Poetry.