Archives: Authors

Keki N. Daruwalla was with the Indian Police Service and retired as ChairmanJIC in 1995. His first book of poems, Under Orion, was published in 1970 to be followed by eight more volumes of poetry. He has also published three volumes of short fiction, a novella and two collections of poetry for children.
Daruwalla received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1984 and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for Asia in 1987. His latest volume of poetry, Collected Poems, was published by Penguin Books India in 2006. He lives in Delhi.

Neel Chowdhury is a contributor to Time magazine and has been covering business in Asia for Fortune and The Wall Street Journal Asia for over a decade. Born in Calcutta, he is a graduate of Oberlin College, and Oxford and Harvard Universities. Currently he lives in Singapore.

SUDHA MURTY was born in 1950 in Shiggaon in north Karnataka. She did her MTech in computer science. A philanthropist, a teacher and an author, she is the chairperson of the Murty Trust. She is also a member of the Rajya Sabha, nominated by the President of India. A prolific writer in English and Kannada, she has written novels, technical books, travelogues, collections of short stories and non-fictional pieces and several bestselling titles for children. Her books have been translated into all the major Indian languages. Sudha Murty is the recipient of the R.K. Narayan Award for Literature. She received the Padma Shri in 2006, the Attimabbe Award from the Government of Karnataka for excellence in Kannada literature in 2011, the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2018 Crossword Book Awards and the Padma Bhushan in 2023. In 2026, she released her fifty-first book, Tides of Time: Bharat’s History Through Murals in Parliament, published by the Lok Sabha Secretariat. She has also received more than twenty honorary doctorates. She weaves magical tales and especially enjoys writing for young readers. A generation of children has grown up reading her books, and her stories have been included in textbooks across schools in India. To read more about her books, please visit www.sudhamurty.in.

Deepti Kapoor lives in Goa. This is her first novel.

Niveditha Subramaniam illustrates and writes picture books and young adult fiction. She lives in Chennai.

In the last two decades, Amit Mehra’s photographs have been regularly published in Der Spiegel, Condé Nast Traveler, Architectural Digest, Gallerie, the Financial Times and National Geographic. Amit’s photographs have been exhibited at major art and photography festivals including the Arco Madrid art fair in Spain, the Canon Gallery in Tokyo and Chobi Mela VI in Bangladesh. He has also had exhibitions in Delhi, Mumbai, London, Tokyo, Sydney, Milan and Melbourne. Amit was honoured with the Best Photographer of the Year Award, Asia 2009, by theSagamihara City Museum, Japan, for his photography book India: A Timeless Celebration. His photographs are in the permanent collections of Gabarron Foundation Museum, Spain, and Sagamihara City Museum, Japan. Amit Mehra lives in New Delhi with his wife, Manjari Chaturvedi and daughter, Naazo.

Leila Seth was the first woman judge of the Delhi High Court and the first women to be Chief Justice of a state in India. She retired as Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh in 1992. She was a member of the 15th Law Commisiion of India and responsible for the report on Free and Compulsory Education of Children. She is involved in human rights activities and with a number of schools and colleges. She has a diplomatic in Montessori education. In 2003, her autobiography On Balance was published by Penguin to much critical acclaim. She passed away in 2017.

A. Revathi is a writer, actor and activist based in Bangalore. She works with Sangama, a sexuality minorities human rights organization for individuals oppressed due to their sexual preference. She is the author of Unarvum Uruvamum (Feelings of the Entire Body); and her autobiography, The Truth about Me, is the first of its kind in English from a member of the hijra community. V. Geetha is a writer, translator, social historian and activist. She has been active in the Indian women s movement since 1988, and has written widely, both in Tamil and English, on gender, popular culture, caste, and politics of Tamil Nadu.