Manasi Sapre studied English Literature at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and got her Masters degree in Media Studies from the University of North Texas. Since 2002, she has worked has the Head of Content and Programming for various national Hindi and English TV channels. She has been part of the core leaership team at UT and has launched several successful channels in Movies an Kids television space. Her passion for cinema and animation, from acclaimed and award winning international cinema to Bollywood entertainers to Hollywood blockbusters, to Japanese anime, led her to conceptualise and head highly successful niche TV channels. Manasi is a compulsive esoteric reader. She loves 19th century Russian Novels, Marathi literature, modern literary suspense and horror from Scandanavia, Europe and Japan. Her studies and work have taken her to various parts of the world and flamed her passion for literature and cinema. Manasi lives with her husband Ronojoy and their dog Myshkin in Mumbai. When not brainstorming about television content with a twist, she can be found mountaineering in North-East India and burning the midnight oil reader her favourite genre : murder mysteries.