Archives: Authors

Dr Vineet Aggarwal is a doctor by qualification, manager by profession and artist by temperament. Born in a family of doctors, he successfully completed an initial stint with the family occupation before deciding to venture into pharmaceutical management. He pursues writing as a passion and is an avid travel photographer as well. His literary repertoire extends from politics to poetry and travel to terrorism but his favourite genre remains the amalgamation of science and mythology. He is the author of the popular online blogs Decode Hindu Mythology and Fraternity Against Terrorism and Extremism. He has previously written Vishwamitra. This is his second book.

Diet guru and fitness expert Suman Agarwal is the force behind the action at Selfcare, a nutrition clinic that has led thousands of people including Bollywood celebs and industrial honchos to weight loss and good health through custom-designed diets. She follows a simple philosophy: Banish the boring. She contributes regularly to publications like DNA, Femina, Beauty and Salon, and has been featured in Vogue, Bombay Times, Asian Age, Mid Day and Hindustan Times, among others. Her previous book, Unjunked, received much critical acclaim.

Madho Lal Hussein (1539-1599), also known as Shah Hussein, was a weaver by profession and a mystic by vocation. To this day, he commands great reverence as a poet-saint in Punjab. His urs (death anniversary), known as Mela Chiraga’an (Festival of Lamps), continues to be held annually at his shrine in Baghbanpura, Lahore.

NAVEED ALAM is a poet and translator. His first collection of poems, A Queen of No Ordinary Realms, won the Spokane Poetry Prize, and his works have been published in a number of literary journals and magazines including the Prairie Schooner, American Poetry Journal and Poetry International, among others. He currently lives in Lahore, Pakistan.

SUDEEP SEN is a major new voice in world literature and “one of the finest younger English-language poets in the international literary scene” (BBC Radio). He is the author of the prize-winning Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins), Distracted Geographies, Rain, Aria (A K Ramanujan Translation Award), and Ladakh

Anand Pandian teaches anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include Crooked Stalks: Cultivating Virtue in South India, also published by Duke University Press.

Aditya Wig is a reader, writer, smoker and thinker, but not necessarily in that order. He lives in Delhi with his family and several four-footed friends. This is his first book.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) was a thinker, politician and leader. He shaped India’s freedom movement and led the country to independence in 1947. His ideas of non-violence and Satyagraha influenced resistance movements all over the world.

Thomas R. Trautmann is the author of Kautilya and the Arthashastra (1971) and other books on ancient India, including Aryans and British India (1997), The Aryan Debate (2005), Languages and Nations: The Dravidian Proof in Colonial Madras (2006) and India: Brief History of a Civilization (2010). He is professor emeritus of history and anthropology at the University of Michigan.

Srinath Raghavan (Author)
Srinath Raghavan is professor of international relations and history at Ashoka University. He is the author of several books, including The Most Dangerous Place: A History of the United States in South Asia (Penguin Random House India, 2018).

Rajiv Kumar (Author)
Rajiv Kumar, an economist, is Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research. He was secretary general of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), and former director of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER).

Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Author)
Pratap Bhanu Mehta is President of the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, and a leading columnist.

Lt Gen. (Retd) Prakash Menon (Author)
Lt Gen. (Retd) Prakash Menon is Military Adviser in the National Security Council Secretariat, and was earlier commandant of the National Defence College, New Delhi.

Dr Chhaya Goswami, Honorary University Fellow, University of Exeter, UK, specializes in western Indian Ocean maritime history. She has authored a previous book on Kachchhi traders. Her current research explores maritime trade and piracy in the gulfs of Kachchh and Persia in the eighteenth century.

JAITHIRTH (JERRY) RAO is an author, columnist, banker, IT entrepreneur and the founder of two companies.