Author, Kamlesh Tripathi lost his younger son ‘Shravan’ in 2009. He was suffering from brain cancer. It was a long battle that he fought for fourteen years. Since then he has become a Cancer activist. Through his ‘Trust—Shravan Charity Mission’ he serves poor children, suffering from life threatening diseases. He has been a senior corporate citizen, for more than three and a half decades, but now works for the noble cause.
He took up to writing to tell his long tale of agony, so that others could benefit. ‘Gloom behind the Smile’ his first book was published in 2011 and since then it has been catalogued in many prestigious libraries of the world such as, the Library of Congress, Washington DC; Ames Library, University of Minnesota, USA; Library of University of Chicago, Chicago University; Libraries and Archives of Canada; and the Library of Cancer Aid and Research Foundation, Mumbai....