Media Release

Doha, Jan 10: ‘Kismet’ the debut book written by Sushma Harish was released in Doha, Qatar on Jan 4 2021. Sushma Harish from Manipal got inspired by the real-life incident of two Mangalore people and life in Qatar and came up with this novel, story covering from Mangalore to Qatar. The genre of the book is literary fiction.

The event was held at Indian Cultural Center, Doha. Chief Guests ICC President Manikantan and ICBF President Baburajan formally released the book after the lighting of the lamp and formal welcome and a keynote address by Sushma Harish.

Eminent leaders ICBF Vice president Mahesh Gowda, Eminent Businessman, Patron & Past President Tulukoota Qatar and Founder President Bunts Qatar Ravi Shetty, President of Karnataka Sangha Qatar Nagesh Rao, President of Indian Women’s Association Susmita Pattnaik, and husband of Sushma Harish Baliga who is the head of operations for Venture Gulf Oil and gas services company have graced the event as Guests of Honour.

Prominent Media personnel from Gulf Times Jayan Orma (celebrity senior photojournalist ), Senior Editor Mudassar Raja attended the event and carried the event details in their esteemed new papers.
Babu Rajan went ahead to read a page from the book in the event, urging the people to read the story. Other community leaders have lauded the first-time author for taking up this challenge of completing a book from Qatar, publishing it in India and also releasing it in the difficult times of corona social distancing.

Many friends and well-wishers of the author and her family graced the event, like Karnataka Sangha Vice President Anil Boloor and his wife, ICBF MC members Avinash Gaikwad, Subramanya Hebbagilu, Ganesh Shenoy, KSQ members Dinesh Gowda, Jerald D’Souza, and conveyed their best wishes to Sushma for her endeavour towards literature. Sushma and Harish have thanked all those who have inspired and supported in fulfilling her first dream of releasing her debut book “ Kismet”. MC of the event Rajani conducted the event with grace.

Sushma Harish is an engineer from Manipal Institute of Technology, after a decade’s corporate experience, and being a personal blogger, she decided to take up writing seriously and plunged into literature work covering the life stories and philosophies of life, from Mangalore to Qatar. She says this is just the first one in the list of her dream books she will write in coming years and urges everyone from Mangalore to read the story which has a profound influence on our futuristic story.