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Podcast: Moments with Marianne
Episode: Purple Lotus with Veena Rao & Have you seen these children? with Veronica Slaughter, DC
Description: Veena Rao was born and raised in India but calls Atlanta home. A journalist by profession, she is the founding editor and publisher of NRI Pulse, a popular Indian-American newspaper. Although her day job involves news reports, interviews, and meeting press deadlines, she devotes her spare time to creative writing and long walks in the woods.  Purple Lotus, her debut novel, is the winner of the She Writes Press and SparkPress Toward Equality in Publishing (STEP) contest. https://www.veenaspulse.com/ Dr. Veronica Slaughter was born in the Philippines to an American father and a Filipino mother in 1951. At ei...