Archives: Authors

Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey has been a journalist for twenty-four years. She started her career with the Statesman and later joined the Times of India. Since 2007 she has been writing both fiction and non-fiction in English and Bengali. She also translates from both languages.

Garima Garg is a journalist and an author. Born and brought up in Delhi, she studied economics at Delhi University and attended Columbia University for her MS in Journalism. She writes about culture and her work has been published in various Indian and international publications over the years. In her spare time, she can be found travelling or experimenting as a photographer with her digital, film, and polaroid cameras. She lives with her family in Delhi.

Devdip Ganguli teaches undergraduate students at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry, where he offers courses on the social and political philosophy of Sri Aurobindo, as well as on ancient Indian history, art and culture. He is frequently invited to speak in universities in India and abroad on topics related to Sri Aurobindo’s writings.
He also works in one of the administrative departments of Sri Aurobindo Ashram.

Akshaya Mukul is the author of Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India (2015), which won every major non-fiction award in India on its release, including the Crossword Book Award, Ramnath Goenka Award, Tata Literature Live Award, Atta-Galatta-Bangalore Literature Festival Prize and the Shakti Bhatt Award. Mukul is the recipient of the Homi Bhabha, Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund and the New India Foundation fellowships. He has contributed essays to Keywords for India: A Conceptual Lexicon for the 21st Century, edited by Rukmini Bhaya Nair and Peter Ronald deSouza, and A Functioning Anarchy? Essays for Ramachandra Guha, edited by Srinath Raghavan and Nandini Sundar.

Nikhil Gulati is an author and illustrator who loves to tell stories that inspire wonder. He is the award-winning creator behind The People of the Indus, a graphic novel history of the Indus Valley Civilization.

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer is one of the foremost authorities on Indus history and is a professor of archaeology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett was an American-English novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children’s novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (published in 1885-1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).

Satya Vyas was born in Bokaro, Jharkhand. He was told by his family that studying is a good thing. He took this seriously, so seriously in fact, that he studied arts, science, commerce, management, and law. An alumnus of the BHU law school, Satya Vyas is a logistics professional at a Navratna company and has published three bestselling books.

After graduating from IIM Mumbai, Harsha Bhogle worked in advertising and sports management before finding his niche in the broadcasting world. For the past twelve years, he has presented cricket on ESPN and Star Sports.

Apeksha fell in love with words very early in life. While other kids of her age were still learning to spell words, she was already reading her older brother’s books and comics. She wrote her first story at the age of seven and submitted it to Tinkle. Apeksha has always wanted to write a boarding school story along the lines of Enid Blyton’s St. Clare and Mallory Towers series, only in an Indian setting. Akbar – Birbal & the Haunted Gurukul is the first of many such books that she hopes to write.

Apeksha is also the author of India’s first YA spy thriller, Along Came A Spyder, which featured in multiple lists of ‘top books of 2020’ and has garnered rave reviews. It has also been optioned for screen adaptation. She has also published the prequel to the Spyders series, The Itsy Bitsy Spyder, as a novella on Kindle. Apeksha was handpicked by renowned author, Anita Nair, for her mentorship program, Anita’s Attic.

Apeksha has been featured in newspapers and online media such as the Sunday Standard, Mid Day, Deccan Chronicle, Times Of India NIE, News18, Sunday Guardian, Outlook, The Tribune, The Week, etc. She has written articles on writing spy fiction, career aspirations, and parenting for Times Of India NIE, News18, News Now, Momspresso, and SheThePeople