Barkha Mathur

About: Barkha Mathur is an award winning career journalist who has worked with leading news and media agencies for over three decades. She writes on art, music, culture and lifestyle. Her bylines appear in Times of India and Outlook India Magazine. She has recently co-authored a book Being the Change- In the Footsteps of Mahatma published by Harper Collins India and has also done the English adaptation of a book Out of the Box thinking based on life and works of Shri Nitin Gadkari. Member of Parliament from Nagpur and union minister. Barkha is also the founding president of Tarang Foundation a Non Profit that works to groom and support sportspersons from the underprivileged section. The foundation currently takes athletics training in four NMC schools in Nagpur. Barkha is currently finishing a biography of an Everest mountaineer and has started researching for a book based on the life and works of Hindi writer Phanishwarnath Renu. Her free style blogs can be read on her website https://barkhamathur.wixsite.com/rhythmofraindrops

BOOK

Name: Being the Change

Description:

This book tells the stories of social justice warriors who are quietly powering the country's progress by being agents of real change. Words Mahatma Gandhi lived by-such as 'India lives in villages and to serve the poor we will have to serve in the villages' or that 'truth may get troubled but it never gets defeated'-are their moral compass. They have shown by personal example how adopting Bapu's ideology as a way of life can be personally enriching and socially beneficial.

The people in this book mostly work away from the spotlight. Through entirely Gandhian ways, they have proved that his methods, such as satyagraha, still help effect real change and progress for the people most in need. Many have won awards and recognition, but largely their stirring stories have remained untold-a gap that Being the Change seeks to fill.