Archives: Authors

RAMACHANDRA GUHA was born and raised in the Himalayan foothills. He studied in Delhi and Kolkata, and has lived for many years in Bengaluru. His many books include a pioneering environmental history, The Unquiet Woods; a landmark history of his country, India after Gandhi; and an authoritative biography of Mahatma Gandhi, both volumes of which were chosen by the New York Times as a Notable Book of the Year. Having previously taught at Oslo, Stanford and the London School of Economics, he is currently Distinguished University Professor at Krea University. Guha’s awards include the Leopold-Hidy Prize of the American Society of Environmental History, the Howard Milton Award of the British Society for Sports History, and the Fukuoka Prize for contributions to Asian culture. He is the recipient of an honorary doctorate in the humanities from Yale University.

Shiromi Pinto’s debut, Trussed, was published in 2006. She has written short stories for BBC Radio 4, the Victoria & Albert Museum and opendemocracy.net. Born in London and raised in Montreal, she works full-time at Amnesty International in London.

Neelam and Shekhar Krishnamoorthy are the parents of Unnati and Ujjwal, who lost their lives during the Uphaar Fire Tragedy.

Shekhar Krishnamoorthy are the father of Unnati and Ujjawal, who lost their lives in the Uphaar Cinema fire.

Sandhya Mulchandani has spent considerable time with the print media. She is the author and researcher of several projects and books that explore eroticism in Hindu mythologies as well as in ancient and medieval literature. She’s the author of The Indian Man, Kama Sutra for Women, which has been translated into several languages, Love and Lust, The Five Arrows of Kama, Mudupalani’s Radhika Santswanam, besides being featured in several documentaries. Interested in Hindu philosophy, mythology and music, she lives in Delhi.

Neel Mukherjee is the author of A Life Apart (2010), which won the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Award for best fiction; The Lives of Others (2014), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and received the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award for best second novel; and A State of Freedom (2018), which was among the New York Times’ ‘100 Notable Books of the Year’, and a Kirkus, National Public Radio, and New York Public Library book of the year in the USA. His book for the Cahiers Series is called Avian (2020). He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and divides his time between London and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Akhil Sharma is the author of the novel An Obedient Father, for which he won the 2001 PEN/Hemingway Award. He has also published stories in, among others, the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, and the Best American Short Stories anthology. He lives in New York.

Sarvat Hasin was born in London and grew up in Karachi. This is her first novel.

Nadeem Aslam is the author of the award-winning Season of the Rainbirds (1993) and The Wasted Vigil (2008). Born in Pakistan, he now lives in England.

Gita Mehta is a bestselling author and has written articles for a number of Indian, European and American magazines. Her books have been translated into thirteen languages and published in twenty seven countries. She lives in New York, London and India.