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'''Ira Mukhoty''' is an Indian author.<ref name="times">{{cite news|title=Ira Mukhoty|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/litfest/litfest-2017/speakers/ira-mukhoty/articleshow/61103258.cms|accessdate=2 April 2018|work=Times of India|date=3 November 2017}}</ref><ref name="roy">{{cite news|last1=Roy|first1=Vaishna|title=Ascent of a woman|url=http://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/ascent-of-a-woman/article17648013.ece|accessdate=2 April 2018|work=The Hindu|date=25 March 2017}}</ref><ref name="aleph">{{cite web|title=Ira Mukhoty|url=http://www.alephbookcompany.com/authors/ira-mukhoty/|publisher=Aleph Book Company|accessdate=2 April 2018}}</ref><ref name="age">{{cite news|title=Heroine-ism|url=http://www.asianage.com/books/110117/heroine-ism.html|accessdate=2 April 2018|work=The Asian Age|date=11 January 2017}}</ref><br />
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She studied natural sciences at the [[University of Cambridge]].<ref name=times /><br />
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Her book ''Heroines: Powerful Indian Women of Myth and History'' (2017, Aleph Books: {{ISBN|978-9384067496}}) tells the tales of mythical heroines including [[Draupadi]] and [[Radha]], and "six real women who played extraordinary roles but who weren’t written into textbooks as were their male counterparts", including [[Jahanara Begum]], [[Rani Laxmibai]] and [[Hazrat Mahal]].<ref name=roy /><br />
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Her second book ''[https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Daughters_of_the_Sun/XjaYuQEACAAJ?hl=en Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire]'' which was about the disappeared women of the great [[Mughal Empire|Mughals]], was published by [[Aleph Book Company]] on 25 April 2018.<ref name=times /><ref name=rose>{{cite news|title=2018: All set to sparkle with new voices| work=Asian Age|date=7 January 2018| last=Rose|first= <br />
Jaya Bhattacharji|URL=http://www.asianage.com/books/070118/2018-all-set-to-sparkle-with-new-voices.html}}</ref> In 2020 she published ''Akbar: The Great Mughal'' (Aleph Book Company, {{ISBN| 978-9389836042}}). A reviewer in the ''[[Asian Review of Books]]'' described it as "an ambitious work crafted with great imagination about how the past and the present intersect".<ref name="wadwha">{{cite news |last1=Wadhwa |first1=Soni |title="Akbar: The Great Mughal" by Ira Mukhoty |url=https://asianreviewofbooks.com/content/akbar-the-great-mughal-by-ira-mukhoty/ |accessdate=4 September 2020 |date=17 August 2020}}</ref><br />
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In 2021, her debut novel ''Song of Draupadi'' was published. The book reimagines ''[[Mahabharata]]'' through the narration of its women characters, particularly [[Draupadi]].<ref name="kochhar">{{cite news |last1=Kochhar |first1=Ritika |title=The queen of Dharma: Review of Ira Mukhoty’s Song of Draupadi |url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/the-queen-of-dharma-review-of-ira-mukhotys-song-of-draupadi/article36643813.ece |access-date=9 October 2021 |work=The Hindu |date=25 September 2021 |language=en-IN}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Mukhoty |first1=Ira |title=This novel asks what would have happened if the Mahabharata had been the story of the women in it |url=https://scroll.in/article/1001700/this-novel-asks-what-would-have-happened-if-the-mahabharata-had-been-the-story-of-the-women-in-it |access-date=9 October 2021 |work=Scroll.in |date=2 August 2021}} ''(Book extract)''</ref> <br />
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