[3][4] She headed the National Centre for Children's Literature at the National Book Trust India, the apex body for children's literature in India.

She also runs a podcast on Hubhopper called Literature in Action,[5] and was an invitee to the India Conference at the Harvard Business School in 2018.

I couldn’t find the kind of plays I wanted to do with today's Indian children, so I started writing them and then found there weren’t many storybooks that fitted my brief either.

"[4] Anand's writing covers topics such as communal hatred, failure, sexual abuse and being different, and is often intended for a young audience.

[7] Anand's book No Guns at My Son's Funeral made it to the IBBY Honors List of 2006[8] and has been translated into Spanish and German.