ANJALI ROONGTA

Anjali Roongta is a well-loved Indian author whose stories touch the heart. Her writing is simple, real, and full of feeling. She has won many awards, but more than that, people remember how her words make them feel. Her books stay with you, like a memory you don’t want to forget.
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Diary of a Twenty-Something: A Collection of Teenage Musings is a collection of 46 poems. Anjali Roongta, the 20 something poetess has penned this teen fiction drama in the form of poems and prose. The most unique factor about the book is the concept of telling a gritting story of the fictional character Siya through the medium of poems written like diary entries…more

So many of us grew up reading about the O’Sullivan twins and Darrell Rivers in Enid Blyton’s school series, often ruing that there’s isn’t anything like St. Clare’s or Malory Towers in contemporary fiction. Anjali Roongta feels it too. Only, unlike most of us, …more

Anjali Roongta has published eight plus books. She runs a poetry page and an eco-friendly publishing house called Muses_Saga. You can find her blog at Anjali Roongta’s Musings where she talks about writing, realistic sustainable living and shares poetry. She is passionate about reading and her YouTube channel- Realistically Sustainable Diary. …more

Anjali’s journalism portfolio and works can be found here.

Anjali’s research can be found here, including her paper on cli-fi. Her 2022 paper on genre hybridity in Doctor Who titled “Doctor Who? Perhaps the answer is Sherlock,” published in 2025, was awarded the International Excellence Award in Research Writing by Exceller Books in 2025.

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change

“These words stayed with me long after I turned the last page.”
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Anjali Roongta has received several recognitions for her writing. She was named Nex8 Author of the Year in 2019 and awarded Voice of Indian Literature in 2020. In 2022, she was honored with the She Excellence Award and recognized as a Woman Changemaker. Most recently, she was nominated for the Sahitya Sparsh Awards 2026.

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A girl reading

The Coven, The Sisterhood, The Girl Gang: On Women.

Where do women go to seek solace?
To the arms of their sisters
The wretched, the beautiful, the successful, the abandoned
The burnt out elder daughters finally smile
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How to have an Eco-Friendly and Realistically Sustainable Celebration.

Not only was  a lack of possible options and cultural restrictions something that we had to contend with, but there was a lot I was still learning about hosting a sustainable party.
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How to Create an Imperfectly Sustainable Skincare Routine.

Imperfectly sustainable skincare is skincare that is as sustainable as you can make it within your budget and keeping the needs of your skin in mind.