Author of more than nineteen books, Paro Anand is a performance storyteller and runs a programme, Literature in Action. She has worked with children in difficult circumstances including the orphans of Kashmir and children of poachers in Madhya Pradesh. A record holder for making the world's longest newspaper with children, she has been awarded for contribution to children's literature by President Abdul Kalam and the Russian Centre for Science and Culture. Her novel No Guns At My Son's Funeral was nominated onto the IBBY Honor List, 2006, as the best book for young people from India. It is translated into Spanish and German. Paro was writer-in-residence at the Woodstock School, Mussoorie, where she wrote this first novel for adults, a book celebrating the grace and strength of older women.