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Pam Handa Nee Kochhar
Pam Handa née Kochhar, the author of Of Kismet and Karma, was born of a Punjabi family in India. A graduate of the Sacred Heart Convent, Dalhousie, India, she completed her BA degree in 1964 with E...view morePam Handa née Kochhar, the author of Of Kismet and Karma, was born of a Punjabi family in India. A graduate of the Sacred Heart Convent, Dalhousie, India, she completed her BA degree in 1964 with English, French, and philosophy as her majors. Two years later, she received her master’s degree from Punjab University, Chandigarh. She was awarded a gold medal for her achievements as an outstanding student. She began her teaching career in 1966 at the Punjab University in Chandigarh, where she served on the faculty of the English Department from 1966 to 1972. While her husband was practicing in the United Kingdom, Pam Handa completed a couple of courses on the teaching of English as a foreign language from the Manchester and Cambridge Universities.
In 1972, the Handas immigrated to Ghana, where she taught in various training colleges and secondary schools in the country as well as in the Ghana International and French schools in Accra, where she is living at present with her husband, Dr. P. K. Handa, a practicing physician.
Among her hobbies are listening to all sorts of music, playing a good game of bridge, ballroom dancing, globe-trotting, and of course, writing. In the late eighties, Mrs. Handa became the pioneer newsletter editor of the Ghana International Women’s Club, a charitable organization. Her first book, The Wild Gecko, a collection of poems, was published in Accra, Ghana, in April 2003.
The Handas have a daughter happily married in the United Kingdom and two grandsons, Samir and Sahir.view less
Books by Pam Handa Nee Kochhar
Of Kismet and Karma: A Cross-Cultural Journey in Self-Discovery