In an attempt to bring together various mini discourses which were discussed on her Facebook page, Aruna Gurumurthy, a medical researcher at Duke University, University of North Carolina and University of California has come up with her first book ‘Diya: a megawatt approach to change’, which was launched at Oxford Bookstore in Connaught Place. The book is an in-depth analysis of author’s day to day observations and happenings. The book was launched in the presence of Kulpreet Yadav, a Delhi based novelist, who further facilitated the interaction between the author and the audience.
‘Diya’ is a conglomeration of “posts” that were shared on Facebook page of the author. These posts began as mini-discourses, spontaneous responses to the intuitive question ‘What’s on your mind’. But not too long ago, when the author noticed that the posts had transformed into a huge mass of about 200 or more independent axioms, it made sense to tie them together and present them to the wider public in the form of a book. Upon being asked about the book’s inspiration, Aruna said, “The book is sort of a real-life memoir; it is my heart-out about some very tough operational impediments that I have faced growing up, how I untangled my way through them, and the incredible theories that I proposed as a result.”