Sharada Dwivedi
Indian author, historian and researcher
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Sharada Dwivedi completed her schooling at Queen Mary School, Mumbai, in Mumbai, and then graduated from the Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics from the University of Mumbai. She follow this with a degree in Library Science from the same university and with training in reference work in Paris.
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Conservation work
Dwivedi was involved in several conservation projects in Mumbai and served as a member of the Mumbai Heritage Conservation Committee. She was a member of the Executive Committee of the Urban Design Research Institute the KALA GHODA ASSOCIATION, and was a consultant to the Bombay Collaborative. In the early 1990s, disgruntled with how authors were not being paid equitably, she started her own publishing company, Eminence Designs Pvt. Ltd., which has gone on to publish over 30 titles on a variety of subjects from Bombay history, art and architecture to cookery, beauty, and film. Her book Almond Eyes & Lotus Feet, authored with Shalini Devi Holkar, was subsequently published by Harper Collins in the US.
Death
Dwivedi died on 6 February 2012 in Mumbai, India after a brief illness.