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New Delhi-based Member Judge in the District Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission Dr. Harshali Singh has written in several literary genres: poetry to fiction, columns to essays. She is the contributing author in several anthologies and regularly writes for e-magazines. She has written several books on women-centric issues like domestic violence, alienation, female foeticide, marital rape and women empowerment and independence. She has been conferred with the Iconic Author Award 2022 by Aesthetics International Lifestyle magazine. After working for more than fourteen years in the education sector as an academician, a teacher trainer, an administrator and a principal, she joined the Consumer Commission as a Member Judge. She has also taken a keen interest in helping people with special needs and follows her passion for helping children, and finds it most fulfilling and personally uplifting. Her novels, ‘A Window to her Dreams’, ‘The Anatomy of Choice’ and the recently launched ‘A Paradox of Dreams’ form part of eight books series, called the ‘Haveli Series’ published by Readomania. She has written several short stories in Anthologies that traverse varied genres from Historical Fiction, mythology, horror, erotica and many more with reputed Traditional Publishing houses. Her poems form part of several Poetry Anthologies like ‘She- The Shakti’ and ‘Remnants of Loss’. She has been on the organising committee of Kavya Kumbh, an International Trilingual Poetry Fest where her poems feature in the Anthology ‘Confluence’ and ‘Shakti’. She has won the prestigious ‘Write India - Season 2’, a short story contest organised by ‘The Times of India’ Group on Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s prompt. The Times Group launched the book at the Times Lit Fest in Delhi and Bangalore amid much fanfare. In 2020, Amitav Ghosh selected her short story in the Top 10 for his prompt. She has also chaired discussions and has been part of various panels with eminent personalities in their chosen fields of World Peace, meditation, infertility, and social causes and stalwarts in writing. As a painter, she expresses herself and her observations of her surroundings in oil paintings, which have been exhibited in solo and group shows in India Habitat Center, New Delhi, and also in Gurugram.