Ira Mukhoty is an Indian author.[1][2][3][4]
She studied natural sciences at the University of Cambridge.[1]
Her book Heroines: Powerful Indian Women of Myth and History (2017, Aleph Books: Template:ISBN) 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.[2]
Her second book Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire which was about the disappeared women of the great Mughals, was published by Aleph Book Company on 25 April 2018.[1][5] In 2020 she published Akbar: The Great Mughal (Aleph Book Company, Template:ISBN). 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".[6]
In 2021, her debut novel Song of Draupadi was published. The book reimagines Mahabharata through the narration of its women characters, particularly Draupadi.[7][8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ira Mukhoty. Times of India(3 November 2017).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ascent of a woman. The Hindu(25 March 2017).
- ↑ Ira Mukhoty. Aleph Book Company.
- ↑ Heroine-ism. The Asian Age(11 January 2017).
- ↑ [{{{url}}} 2018: All set to sparkle with new voices]. Asian Age(7 January 2018).
- ↑ "Akbar: The Great Mughal" by Ira Mukhoty(17 August 2020).
- ↑ The queen of Dharma: Review of Ira Mukhoty’s Song of Draupadi. The Hindu(25 September 2021). Retrieved 9 October 2021.
- ↑ This novel asks what would have happened if the Mahabharata had been the story of the women in it. Scroll.in(2 August 2021). Retrieved 9 October 2021. (Book extract)