Joanna and Barbara attended the wonderful party at Jay and Sunitha Macherla's to celebrate their aunt, Mrs. Hema Macherla self-taught to read, speak and write English who became a published author, in English, and who won the accolade of National Reading Hero for her outstanding reading achievements. The party was well attended by family and friends and Mrs. Macherla read from her debut novel, Breeze from The River Manjeera, which reached the top 26 out of 44,000 entries for the Richard & Judy Novel writing competition in 2005.
