About the Book
" Wanavla", the word in marathi meaning; "Offering a part of the produce from farm or home made delicacies to our friends, neighbours or relatives." Author Dr. Arati. has spent her childhood in a small town, "Kalwan", District Nasik, Maharashtra, India. Where it was a very common custom to offer a Wanavla to neighbours and mostly people who used to go with 'Wanavla' never came back empty-handed. They also were offered something from their neighbours farms or homemade delicacies as well. And in this process neighbours/relatives/friends were offered a cup of tea/coffee/fresh lemon juice and chit chatting over that used to be a common phenomena of the town like Kalwan. Surely many readers too, must be knowing what Wanavla is? In that Chit Chatting every important matter has been discussed, from children's education to their marriages, produce from their farms to prices in the market, politics, farming, human life every possible topic has been discussed. Ladies from the homes, if they go to offer Wanavla to their neighbours then, it has been a very important, relaxing time to be spent for them. ""Gappa'' is a word taken here metaphorically. All the incidents happened in the town where Wanavla is to be offered and offered back, so author Dr. Arati wants to call it ""Wanavlyachya Gappa"". In this book, you will find beautiful incidents/anecdotes from her childhood and also from the places where she travelled with her family. Wherever her father transferred in Maharashtra, She has selected beautiful Anecdotes to share with you. All of them are beautiful and literally take you there while reading those stories. Also how her family used to receive Wanavla from various families from the town Kalwan. Every Anecdote has a different Title to it.
About the author
Dr. Arati Suryawanshi, Before Marriage, her name was Arati Vaze, Father's name was Shri. Yashwantrao Vaze, When her father \ was working with Brooke Bond Company, His transfer was in the small Village, Kalwan, Dist. Nashik. In that town Dr. Arati and her family had to spend at least eight years. During that time, Her Grand Mother, Saraswatibai Vaze(Nagpur), used to be with them. When guests/relatives used to visit their house in Kalwan, they used to love the serene beauty of it. And family members take their guests to visit Shri. Saptashrungi Gad was quite often. After 8th grade, Arati's father transferred to Nashik District. Then in Jalgaon, and Later Dr. Arati completed her Education in Clinical Psychology in University of Pune. After completing her post graduation in Clinical Psychology, Dr. Arati started her own counselling centre in Jalgaon, and later in Nashik. Both the places, Jalgaon and Nashik, it was the first ever therapy based clinic commercially opened by Dr. Arati. Before and After her marriage She took her career ahead in Training and Development. Now it's been 27 years she is in the same career. She always wanted to have the most important degree in academics and that is , Doctorate in Philosophy in her own beloved subject, "Emotional Intelligence". And she completed her PhD. in Emotional Intelligence and Human Resource Management, with the grants awarded by Globally recognised NGO, 6seconds. Today she is working as a Emotional Intelligence Consultant from her own office at Fort, Mumbai. She has participated in various conferences and submitted her papers, at Mauritius, California, etc. Her papers are also published in many International Journals.
During Covid, her consultancy, had taken an initiative "Covid - 19 - Action", She has conducted online seminars for various communities, approx. not less than 5000 people attended it. Her remarkable work during Covid, awarded her with many awards, as Samajbhushan puraskar, Mental health sanjivani award, Felicitated by Indian Medical Association. She has already written one book, "The Mindful Heart", Which is available on Smash Words.
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