SAHANA VIJAYAKUMAR IS AN IT PROFESSIONAL & AUTHOR. SHE WRITES IN KANNADA. SHE IS A NATIVE OF MYSORE, NOW BASED IN BANGALORE. SHE BEGAN AS A COLUMNIST IN THE YEAR 2014, WRITING ON CURRENT AFFAIRS, IN ONE OF KARNATAKAS LEADING NEWSPAPERS. THE COLLECTION OF HER ARTICLES IS PUBLISHED AND AVAILABLE IN TWO VOLUMES. SHE TOOK TO WRITING NOVELS SUBSEQUENTLY AND HER FIRST NOVEL, KSHMA, BASED ON A CONTEMPORARY THEME OF FAMILIAL VALUES, WAS PUBLISHED IN THE YEAR 2016. IT HAS SEEN 3 PRINTS TILL DATE. HER SECOND NOVEL, KASHEER, WAS PUBLISHED IN JULY 2018. KASHEER, HAVING KASHMIR AS ITS THEME, INVOLVED INTENSE RESEARCH AND TRAVEL. THE NOVEL HAS BEEN WIDELY ACCLAIMED SINCE ITS RELEASE AND HAS SEEN 6 PRINTS TILL DATE. KASHEER HAS ALSO BEEN PUBLISHED IN HINDI AND ENGLISH. SAHANAS THIRD NOVEL, AVASAN PORTRAYING THE FILIAL PHILOSOPHY OF PANDHARPURA ENTWINED WITH THE STARK REALISM OF KAMATHIPURA WAS RELEASED IN FEB 2020 AND HAS SEEN 2 PRINTS TILL DATE. IT IS NOW BEING PUBLISHED IN MARATHI. ALL HER KANNADA WORKS HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED BY THE RENOWNED SAHITYA BHANDARA.