Archives: Authors

Swati Chaturvedi is an award-winning print and broadcast journalist who has worked for the Statesman, the Indian Express, Hindustan Times and Zee News. She lives in New Delhi. This is her first book.

Sudha Menon is the author of five non-fiction books, including Legacy, Gifted and Devi, Diva or She-Devil. She is the founder of the popular Get Writing and Writing With Women workshops series and a motivational speaker. She is also a model, and a diversity and inclusion ambassador.

Jeanne Perrett has taught English for over thirty years, and is the author of children’s novels as well as a wide range of English-language coursebooks for primary and pre-primary classes. She lives in Greece with her husband and their large family. Her first novel, Ash & Tara and the Emerald Dagger, was published by Puffin Books in 2010.

Vir Sanghvi is probably the best-known Indian journalist of his generation. He became editor of Bombay magazine at twenty-two, making him the youngest editor in the history of Indian journalism. He went on to edit Imprint, and Sunday, which was then India’s largest-selling weekly news magazine. From 1999 to 2004, he was the editor of Hindustan Times before being promoted to editorial director, a post he held till 2007, after which he continued at the paper as a columnist. His television career has included several award-winning shows on the Star TV network, NDTV, Discovery and other channels. His weekly political show Virtuosity on CNN-News18 is one of the channel’s top-rated programmes.

He has a parallel career as India’s leading food and travel writer. His many books include the bestselling Mandate: Will of the People, Men of Steel, Rude Food (which won the Cointreau Award for Best Food Literature Book in the world) and Madhavrao Scindia: A Life.

Scholar, author, former editor and minister, Arun Shourie has, for the last four decades, been one of the most prominent voices in our country’s public affairs and discourse.

As a member of the Indian Police Service, Kirpal Singh Dhillon served as director general of police in Punjab and Madhya Pradesh, and as joint director, Central Bureau of Investigation, among other challenging assignments. After retirement, he served a tenure as vice chancellor of Bhopal University and has also been a hockey administrator and a human rights advocate. He was the author of Defenders of the Establishment, Police and Politics in India and Identity and Survival: Sikh Militancy in India 1978 1993, and wrote essays on the Indian Constitution, human rights, minority issues and the Bhopal gas disaster. He was a fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.

Abraham Eraly is the author of six acclaimed books on premodern Indian history, which form this set. He was born in Kerala and educated there and in Chennai. He taught Indian history in colleges in India and the United States and was the editor of a current affairs magazine for several years.

Abraham Eraly is the author of two critically acclaimed books on Indian history, The Last Spring: The Lives and Times of the Great Mughals (1997) and Gem in the Lotus: The Seeding of Indian Civilization (2000). His novel, Night of the Dark Trees, was published recently.
Born in Kerala, and educated there and in Chennai, Eraly has taught Indian history in colleges in India and the United States, and was the editor of a current affairs magazine for several years.
He now lives in Chennai, and is working on a study of classical Indian civilization. He can be contacted at abraham_eraly@yahoo.co.in

Abraham Eraly (15 August 1934­­-8 April 2015) was an Indian writer of history, a teacher and the founder of Chennai-based magazine Aside.