Padmini Dutta Sharma

According to Padmini, “life is about spreading light and love; we can all do that by freeing our souls from the fetters of selfishness that holds back the goodness in us.”

Padmini Dutta Sharma is one of the best selling International authors and poet with 16 books of different genres in her bucket. Sharma has carved an exceptional niche for herself in the literary world through distinctive portrayal of characters and faces using her non conventional style; something which her readers can easily relate to. Her pen range from fiction to non fiction; poems to short stories, essays to novels. Being a profound and prolific writer and columnist, she has always lend her thoughts and pen to the ongoing social issues of her time. Dutta Sharma prefers to keep the intertwining of love and satire subtle and elusive as her primary forte, . Although her first career choice was journalism, she subsequently switched to literary writing, selecting books as her preferred medium for interacting with her readers.

Her books on have received rare reviews from the media and literary laureates especially because of her incisive analysis of characters; both natural and supernatural. Her writing always carries that rare sense of belonging from a distance; in other words, she is like one of the key transitional figures standing between literary realism and literary fancy. 

Her debut book ‘Spice up your Marriage’ is considered a marriage dictionary by many, already into its fourth successful edition. Her second book,‘Uncensored Revelations’ is a collection of unedited, raw poems and the third, ‘5 Hot Sizzlers’ consists of five short stories where it is hard to guess the ending unless one browses through the pages meticulously. Her fourth and fifth books ‘Sensuous love poems’ and ‘How to become best parents’ are equally sought after. 'The eternal quest', a novel based on human psyche makes a very engrossing read. This is followed by another poetry collection 'Half baked poems' and collection of ten short stories 'Truly yours'. 'Sleeping with the arch rivals' is basically a collection of essays on human emotions but penned in story form with real life illustrations in first person to make them more compelling and credible. 'Legitimately illegitimate' is another blockbuster, followed by 'Glass splinters' and Never say No to Love.' ‘Love by a thousand cuts’, ‘Temptations unlimited’ followed suit in the same extraordinary style, stealing the reader’s heart.

Padmini’ s ‘Values I imbibed from my son’ is the confession of a mother’s journey to stardom, where she has openly credited her existence and success to her son Parthasarathi.

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The most recent one to take the readers by storm is 'Make love to your obsessions’, this one seems to have grabbed huge media attention already.

Apart from Amazon and other leading book stores all across the globe, her books are also available in Barnes & Noble, Alibris, Powell’s books, Flipkart, Infibeam, Junglee, eBay, Booktopia to name just a few.

Padmini is also a film maker and has already three short films to her credit. Her debut film 'No more tears... rise & fight' is based on her own collection of poetry book 'Uncensored revelations'. It talks about the trials and tribulations women have to go through irrespective of her class or religion. Her second film 'Bhrashta' is about stolen childhood where over ambitious mothers push their daughters off the cliff to rot in hell to fulfill their ambitions.Sharma's third film 'Boomerang' is based on the preconceived notion about the millennial girls, who think that girls that don short western outfits and live in the West are available and cheap.

A Master's in English and Journalism she began as a journalist, later diversifying her horizons to PR and Corporate Communications. She started writing books from 2012 and since then, there has been no looking back.

She is frequently invited to various television channels for live shows as a guest to opine on various ongoing social issues

A true philanthropist attached to several renowned NGO's and Charities.

Happily married to her childhood heartthrob Bhaskar, she feels marriages should be based on trust and trust alone.