Archives: Authors

Anosh Irani has published four critically acclaimed novels: The Cripple and His Talismans (2004), a national bestseller; The Song of Kahunsha (2006), which was an international bestseller and shortlisted for Canada Reads and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize; Dahanu Road (2010), which was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize, and The Parcel (2016), which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction and the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. His play Bombay Black won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play (2006), and his anthology The Bombay Plays: The Matka King & Bombay Black (2006) and his play The Men in White (2018) were both shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama. He lives in Vancouver.

Paul Rosolie is a naturalist, author, and wildlife filmmaker who specializes in protecting vanishing wild places.

AMBASSADOR PHUNCHOK STOBDAN is a distinguished academician, diplomat and author, and an expert on foreign policy and national security. He is a known authority on Central and Inner Asian affairs. He last served as India’s ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic. He has previously served in the National Security Council Secretariat and been director of the Centre for Strategic Studies in Jammu and Kashmir. He is the founding president of the Ladakh
International Centre, Leh, and has been senior fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, as well as distinguished fellow at the United Services Institution.

JAY ALANI is a paranormal investigator whose idea of fun is to spend a night at a reputedly haunted location, all alone. He has explored over sixty haunted locations in India and investigated over 130 individual cases of unexplained phenomena. He has been on several TEDx platforms and is known for his Haunted Talks. He hosts a podcast, Paranormal Reality, on Hubhopper, and is soon slated to host podcasts on Gaana and Storytel. Jay aspires to crusade against superstitious beliefs and blind faith in India and unearth the real truth behind paranormal activities.

Jay hails from Patna and currently lives in New Delhi. This is his debut book.

Neil D’Silva is a bestselling Indian horror author, known for Maya’s New Husband, Yakshini, Haunted, and Playthings: Toys of Terror. His books have been optioned for screen, and he’s currently writing original stories for web series.
He has spoken at leading literature festivals like the Times Litfest, Bengaluru, and Shimla International Literature Festival, and on TEDx platforms about horror and writing. He served as president of the India Chapter of the Horror Writers Association and was jury chair for the Bram Stoker Awards® (short story category).
Neil is a frequent podcast guest, with appearances on The Ranveer Show, Pinkvilla’s HindiRush, The Speaking Tree, The Astro Arun Pandit Show, Ankhon Dekhi with Khooni Monday and more.
He’s an avid fitness enthusiast as well. When not writing, he’s busy training for marathons. He lives in Mumbai with his wife and two children.
Fun fact: He was born on Halloween!

Chaturvedi badrinath was born in Mainpuri, Uttar Pradesh. a philosopher, he was a member of the Indian Administrative Service, 1957-89, and served in Tamil Nadu for thirty-one years (1958-89).
His other published books are Dharma, India and the World Order: Twenty-one Essays (1993), Introduction to the Kama Sutra (1999), finding Jesus in Dharma: Christianity in India (2000), and The Mahabharata-An Inquiry into the Human Condition (2006). he passed away in Pondicherry in February 2010.

Paramu Kurumathur is an avid reader of historical works, who has been exposed to diverse cultures and religious works over decades. A keen traveller, he has visited and stayed in around forty countries. He is also an ardent student of Sanskrit and has published a series of online tutorials on learning the language in easy steps-these can be accessed on www.oursanskrit.com. His research into the Rig Veda seeded the idea for The First Aryan.
Paramu is an alumnus of IIT Madras. He has been working in the international software services industry and global IT management since 1980. His interests include studying and interpreting ancient Indian writings, writing limericks and promoting humour as a way of life.

Arundhathi Subramaniam is the author of two books of poems: On Cleaning Bookshelves and Where I Live. She has been active in the fields of arts journalism and arts management for several years. She lives in Mumbai.

Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most acclaimed, award-winning contemporary authors. Translated into over forty languages, his sixteen works of fiction include Midnight’s Children – for which he won the Booker Prize in 1981, the Booker of Bookers on the 25th anniversary of the prize and Best of the Booker on the 40th anniversary – Shame, The Satanic Verses, Quichotte and Victory City. His latest book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature and was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen’s last Birthday Honours list in 2022.

Sheela Reddy has written extensively for leading Indian newspapers and journals during her thirty-five years in journalism. In her last job as books editor of the newsmagazine Outlook, she wrote on diverse subjects, including politics, history, culture, literature, biographical sketches and interviews with significant men and women of the subcontinent and beyond, and change makers everywhere. Her writing has also appeared in literary magazines and in several anthologies. Mr and Mrs Jinnah is her second book. Her first was a compilation of essays and profiles by Khushwant Singh, Why I Supported the Emergency. She lives in Delhi.