Archives: Authors

Shals Mahajan has recently realised that publishing is not life-threatening and writing can continue in the hereafter. They are thus pursuing talking to trees and cats in between brief bouts of writing and other necessities. Shals lives in Bombay and looks out at dumper trucks parked under copper pods.

Mitali Bose Perkins (mitaliperkins.com) has written many novels for young readers, including Rickshaw Girl (chosen by the New York Public Library as one of the top 100 books for children in the past 100 years) and Bamboo People (an American Library Association’s Top Ten Novels for Young Adults, starred in Publishers Weekly as “a graceful exploration of the redemptive power of love, family, and friendship”). Her book Tiger Boy was a South Asia Book Award winner in 2016 and a Neev Book Award winner in 2018.

Mitali was born in Kolkata, India before immigrating to the US with her family. She graduated from Stanford University in Political Science, received her Masters in Public Policy from U.C. Berkeley, and has lived in Bangladesh, India, England, Thailand, Mexico, Cameroon, and Ghana. Currently she resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and sons.

Sharanya Deepak lives in New Delhi. Amid massive confusion, she has glimpsed the real world, and is terrified yet excited. Her favorite things include dog smells, laughter, 90’s rocknroll and pork chops. The Vampire Boy is her first book.

Martin Widmark is considered one of the giants of current children’s fiction. His books are consistently on the best-seller lists and have been translated into more than 30 languages.

Katarina Genar is the author of several critically acclaimed novels for children that are loved by the young readers. Her stories contain several layers, both enigmatic and somewhat mysterious.

Bikram Ghosh is an actor, director and storyteller based in New Delhi. He is a founder and Company Manager of the Tadpole Repertory, one of Delhi most prominent theatre groups. He also manages and workshops for the Looking Glass Project, an initiative for people of all ages to explore their own creativity through theatre, games and play. He has never won any awards or prizes but is still not available for weddings and birthday parties.

Parinita Shetty buys more books than she should. She is considering building a spaceship made of books because her house has run out of shelf space. She accidentally wrote her first book called The Monster Hunters in 2013 and has written some more since. She is currently doing her PhD at the University of Leeds.

Shruthi Rao (http://shruthi-rao.com) has a master’s degree in energy engineering, and worked in the IT industry before she started writing. She is the author of 10 Indian Women Who Were the First to Do What They Did (2019, Duckbill), 20 Indians Who Changed the World (2019, Talking Cub), Susie Will Not Speak (2018, Duckbill), Manya Learns to Roar (2017, Duckbill), The Secret Garden (2016, NSI), Avani and the Pea Plant (2016, Pratham), among others. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, and loves books, desserts, trees, benches, science and long walks.

Rupa Gulab is a Mumbai-based freelance writer and columnist, and the author of Girl Alone and Chip of the Old Blockhead. She scribbled her first stories, Hamlet the Cutlet and Nostracious Nominovich-The Commie Spy, while in her early teens to keep her two little sisters amused. Shockingly, the stories won her two little diehard fans. She continues to write for them.

Arundhati Venkatesh went to school in five towns and worked in four continents. Everywhere, she made up stories. Now she puts them down on paper. When she is not cooking up stories or dreaming of food, she haunts bookstores and libraries in Bangalore.