Archives: Authors

Vinod Mehta has founded and edited numerous publications, among them the weekly newsmagazine Outlook, of which he is currently editorial chairman. His previous book, Lucknow Boy, was published by Penguin in 2011.

Ayesha Tariq was born in Karachi in 1988. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Design from the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture. She works as a designer, illustrator and an improv artist. She currently lives in Karachi and is the Creative Head at the Citizens Archive of Pakistan and the Managerial Director and Improviser with The Platoon.

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.