A sneak Peak into the past with Nandini Sen Gupta, Parvati Sharma, Moupia Basu, Vaibhav Purandare.
Channel: Orange City Literature Festival
Date: 09/02/2021

Moupia Basu :- Moupia Basu has worked as a journalist with The Times of India, The Economic Times, The Indian Express, and Business Today. She has written on a variety of topics including business, education, art and culture and travel. Her debut book, Khoka, was published in 2015. Her books, The Queen's Last Salute - The story of the Rani of Jhansi and the 1857 Mutiny, and Anarkali and Salim - a retelling of Mughal e Azam were bestsellers. Moupia believes that the objective of a historical fiction writer should be to bring alive certain aspects of history, not change it; to present and enhance what’s there, and pull it out from the layers of obscurity.

Nandini Sen Gupta:- Nandini Sen Gupta is a Pondicherry-based journalist and writer. She already has several fiction and non-fiction titles to her credit. Her first published title was the non-fiction Babies from the Heart (published by Random House India). Her first two novels, The King Within and The Poisoned Heart – part of a historical fiction trilogy on the Gupta Empire published by HarperCollins India – are already out and the third book is due in the summer of 2021. Her first historical fiction title for young readers titled The Story of Kalidas: The Gem among Poets (published by Eicher Goodearth Publications) hit the stands last December and her next book -- a historical non-fiction title for young adult readers for Hachette India -- will debut this November. She is currently researching medieval India for a narrative historical non-fiction book for Penguin India.

Parvati Sharma:- Parvati Sharma is a Delhi-based author. Her debut was a collection of short stories called The Dead Camel and Other Stories of Love. She has also written a novel, Close to Home; two books for children, The Story of Babur and Rattu & Poorie's Adventures in History: 1857; and a historical biography, Jahangir: An Intimate Portrait of a Great Mughal.

Vaibhav Purandare:- Vaibhav Purandare grew up in Mumbai in the 1980s and 90s, the tumultuous decades in which Bal Thackeray and his Shiv Sena went from being regional political players to champions of a militant Hindutva that carried their rhetoric and rage across India. He began his journalistic career with the political newsmagazine Blitz in 1993, in the early part of which, Thackeray and his organization played a key role in the Mumbai riots, and has since worked with India’s leading newspapers such as The Indian Express, The Asian Age, Daily News and Analysis (DNA), Mid-Day and Mumbai Mirror, apart from writing for a host of other publications.
His first book, The Sena Story was published in 1999, when he was only 23. His second book, Sachin Tendulkar: A Definitive Biography (Roli Books) and is now into its fifth edition. He is currently Senior Associate Editor with the Hindustan Times, Mumbai

Naveen Choudhary:- Naveen Choudhary is an author and satirist. His political thriller Janta Store is soon going to be adapted as web-series. He works as Associate Marketing Director at Oxford University Press and leads Social science discipline marketing globally.

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