Dr. Harshali Singh is a Member Judge at the District Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission, an award-winning Author, a Poet, an academician, an Occupational Therapist and a Painter. She is the recipient of the coveted ‘Munshi Premchand Literature Award 2023’, conferred to her by Aesthetics International for her contribution to the field of literature. Dr Harshali was also awarded the prestigious ‘Ashoka Award’ by the Charles Walters Council for Innovation & Research 2023. She has won the ‘Write India’ Season 2’, an initiative of The Times of India Group, the ‘Iconic Author Award in 2022 and in 2023’ at the Global Leadership Summit by Aesthetics International. Her book ‘Paradox of Dreams’ was longlisted for the ‘Oxford Book Cover Prize 2023’. She is the founding member of a literary initiative called the House of Harmony as a Literature Festival Curator. In tandem with the vision of creating a platform for seasoned and debut authors, the first foray of House of Harmony was concluded successfully at Kunzum Books in April 2023. Dr. Harshali Singh has written in several literary genres, from poetry, fiction, and columns to essays. She is the contributing author in several anthologies and regularly writes for e-magazines. She has written several books on women-centric issues like domestic violence, alienation, female foeticide, marital rape and women empowerment and independence. She takes a keen interest in helping people with special needs and follows her passion for helping children, finding it most fulfilling and personally uplifting. Her novels, ‘A Window to her Dreams’, ‘The Anatomy of Choice’ and ‘A Paradox of Dreams’, form part of an eight-book series called the ‘Haveli Series’ published by Readomania. Her most recent Historical Fiction Book, released in December 2023, ‘Anarkali- the Courtesan, the Pawn and the Queen’, is based on the mysterious and complex woman in History, Anarkali. A woman loved by many but understood by none. Harshali explores if Anarkali was a pawn in the hands of a controlling monarch, or was she the attacking piece, the knight? She has also written several short stories in Anthologies that traverse varied genres from Historical Fiction, mythology, horror, and many more with reputed Traditional Publishing houses. Her poems form part of several Poetry Anthologies like ‘She- The Shakti’ and ‘Remnants of Loss’. She has been on the organising committee of Kavya Kumbh, an International Trilingual Poetry Fest where her poems feature in the anthologies ‘Confluence’, ‘Shakti’, and ‘Purush’. ‘Monochrome Verses’, a coffee table book, ‘Spring Love Poems’ and others. Dr. Harshali Singh has also chaired discussions and has been part of various panels with eminent personalities in their chosen fields of World Peace, meditation, infertility, and social causes and stalwarts in writing. As a painter, she expresses herself and her observations of her surroundings in oil paintings, exhibited in solo and group shows in India Habitat Center, New Delhi, and Gurugram.