Interview with Veena Sheker - Author of The Truth in its Essence. Veena Sheker is a practicing optometrist in India with over twenty-five years of experience in her field. She graduated from Elite School of Optometry in Chennai and got her Master’s in Vision Science – Low Vision, from the University of Montreal, Canada. ‘The Truth in its Essence’ is her debut book written at the time of lockdown during the COVID 19 pandemic. In this novel, she shares her beliefs about keeping secrets and the outcome when it comes out.