About the Author

Dr. Sudha Mahadevan is a writer, poet, and storyteller with over three decades of experience in obstetrics and gynaecology. Her work draws from a lifetime of listening—to women's bodies, their silences, and their strength. Blending scientific insight with lyrical depth, she writes with clarity, compassion, and fierce honesty.

She is the author of five books:
Impressions: A Small Book of Poetry
An August Awakening
Not All Who Stay, Belong
The Demeter’s Table: Anti-inflammatory Recipes for Bachelors, Mothers-to-be, and People Over 45
and Letters to a Friend’s Daughter: Wisdom and Strategic Warfare

She is married to Dr. N.P. Mahadevan, a surgeon, and is the mother of two sons—Dr. Aditya Mahadevan and Varun Mahadevan. Her writing is deeply rooted in the personal and the political, the medical and the mythical, offering a voice that is both nurturing and unflinching.