Priya Kumar

Biography

Priya Kumar (b. 4 March 1974) is an Indian motivational speaker and writer. She is an author of 12 books including novels and self-help books. Her works mainly deal with inspirational and spiritual themes. 

Her book License to Live (2010) was nominated for Vodafone Crossword Book Award in 2010. In 2019, her novel I Will Go with You (2015) was adapted into the web television series The Final Call, starring Arjun Rampal, Sakshi Tanwar, and Javed Jaffrey.

Priya Kumar was born on 4 March 1974 in Chandigarh, India. She took her schooling at St. Kabir Public School, Chandigarh. She graduated from the University of Bombay in economics, and obtained a master's degree in psychotherapy and counter selling. 

She later did her post-graduation in marketing and sales from NMIMS University. She started her career as a motivational speaker at the age of 22.

Priya is the author of 12 books. Her works mainly deal with inspirational and spiritual themes.

In 2010, she published her first book License to Live, a self-help book with a spiritual theme, which she termed as 'inspiration thriller' and 'spiritual fiction'. 

It won the Eric Hoffer Award in 2012. It is a collection of fictionalized fables with first-person narration. Her next book I Am Another You: A Journey To Powerful Breakthroughs was published in the same year and became a bestseller. It deals with the themes such as self-realization and shamanism. 

It narrates Priya's experiences with the Shamans tribe, an ancient tribal group in the Netherlands. I Am Another You was shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize Award. Next year she published her novel The Perfect World.

In 2014, she wrote a biography of Om Prakash Munjal, an Indian businessman and founder of Hero Cycles, under the title The Inspiring Journey of a Hero. Written in the style of a self-help book, it narrates Munjal's life journey with a motivational approach. 

The book covers Munjal's major aspects of life including his early life, partition, and handling his bicycle company. It was published by Penguin Books in 2014. 

Writers Alice McDermott in Sunday Tribune and P. P. Ramachandran in The Free Press Journal reviewed the biography and praised it for its inspirational portrayals of Munjal. It was translated into Hindi under the title Ek Super Hero Ki Shandaar Kahani (2015).

In 2015, she published the suspense thriller novel I Will Go with You. Its plot follows a pilot of a flight, who decides to commit suicide while on board. Instead of dying alone, he chooses to endanger the lives of 300 passengers on the flight and dies in mid-air along with them. 

It deals with several themes including afterlife, karma, mortality, and spirituality. I Will Go With You became a bestseller, and was adapted into the 2019 web television series The Final Call, starring Arjun Rampal, Sakshi Tanwar, and Javed Jaffrey. 

In April 2019, Priya announced that she is writing the second season of The Final Call. In January 2019, ZEE5 announced another web-series adaptation of her book The Wise Man Said (2017).

She is also featured in the list of top 10 Indian Motivational Speakers.