We hope you can join us as Nishi Chawla will speak on:

My journey from an Academician and a Writer to an independent filmmaker: The Challenges and Joys of straddling Diverse Genres.

It seems a bit inconceivable at first glance, that an academician and a writer would write, direct, and produce four feature films, three of which are on major streaming platforms, and the fourth one is with a distributor. Dr Nishi Chawla, who has taught for forty years and published thirteen books, could never imagine that she would become a filmmaker so late in life. Dr Nishi Chawla will discuss the challenges, surprises, and delights of navigating various artistic genres and disciplines.

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Nishi Chawla is an academician and a writer. She has seven collections of poetry, nine plays, four feature films, and two novels, to her credit. She has also co-edited an anthology of poems, "Singing in the Dark" published by Penguin Random House in 2020. Another poetry anthology edited by her and titled "Greening the Earth" was published in 2023, again by Penguin Random House.

Nishi Chawla holds a Ph.D. in English from The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. She has also done a two year post doctoral study at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. After teaching for nearly twenty years as a tenured Professor of English at Delhi University, India, she had migrated with her family to a suburb of Washington D.C. She has taught at the University of Maryland from 1999 until 2014. She has recently retired from the faculty of Thomas Edison State University, New Jersey, USA.

Nishi Chawla has written and directed four award winning independent feature films. Three of them are streaming on Amazon Prime.  Her fourth feature film titled, 'The Peace Activists,' is on Gandhi, Thoreau, and MLK.

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