Sonal Kalra goes to great lengths to explain to everyone that she's not a writer, but no one pays attention. She has gotten used to getting ignored in her two-hundred-year-old career of being an award-winning newspaper editor and columnist. Her weekly column in Hindustan Times—A Calmer You—has been fairly popular among those who have nothing better to do on a Sunday morning and has led to publication of two previous volumes which became bestsellers by fluke. Apart from the day job of making a mess of the Entertainment and Lifestyle bureau of HT that she heads, she also pretends to raise two daughters and three dogs. It is they, in fact, who are raising her. She lives in New Delhi and likes to smile often.