Medha Deshmukh Bhaskaran

Medha Deshmukh Bhaskaran is the author of Chhatrapati Shivaji’s bestselling biography, Challenging Destiny. She is also the author of Frontiers: The Relentless Battle Between Aurangzeb and Shivaji and Life and Death of Sambhaji, which have been translated into various Indian languages.

Medha is a microbiologist who has worked in marketing and business development for food and pharmaceutical companies in countries such as Germany, India and the United Arab Emirates. From a young age, she has dabbled in poetry in Marathi and English. Medha has written articles on various subjects for leading newspapers in India (Indian Express) and in the Gulf (Khaleej Times and Gulf News).