INTERVIEWS
The Interviews
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The Interview: Jacqueline Jones
Winner of Pulitzer Prize 2024
Rachna Singh, Editor, The Wise Owl talks to Jacqueline Jones, the author of several books, including, most recently, No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era (2023) which won the Pulitzer Prize 2024 and Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons (2017). She is also the author of A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama’s America (2013). That book and Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize; Labor of Love won the Bancroft Prize for 1986. Other works include Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War, 1854-1872 (2008) and many others. She is currently Emerita Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
The Interview:Bharati Shah
A renowned Indian cubist artist
Rachna Singh, Editor, The Wise Owl talks to Bharati Shah, an Ahmedabad-based artist whose focus is on abstract painting. An expression of her soul, Bharati Shah's art is inspired by colors and forms. A circle in her work is her Muse. A self-learnt prolific painter, Bharati has been painting since over two decades. She likes to experiment with various forms of painting. Along with a B.A. (Economics and Commerce) and a Diploma in Dangerous Goods Regulations Act as well as in Human Resource Management, she is also a pro at gardening. A multi-lingual, with a creative mind to showcase her works; she has participated in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. Her amazing works in oils, watercolours, acrylic, I-Pad, glass, wood, etc. bring out the best in many homes and government offices in India, USA, Germany, United Kingdom and Australia.
