Ira Mukhoty

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Ira Mukhoty
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Alma mater University of Cambridge

Ira Mukhoty is an Indian author. [1] [2] She studied natural sciences at University of Cambridge. [3]

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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. [4]

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. [3] [5] 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". [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]

In 2024, she published The Lion and The Lily: The Rise and Fall of Awadh which follows the rise and fall of Awadh (Oudh), an important Mughal subha which gained relative independence under the Nawabs of Awadh. [9]

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References

  1. "Ira Mukhoty". Aleph Book Company. 29 December 2016. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
  2. "Heroine-ism". The Asian Age. 11 January 2017. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Ira Mukhoty". Times of India. 3 November 2017. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
  4. Roy, Vaishna (25 March 2017). "Ascent of a woman". The Hindu. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
  5. Rose, Jaya Bhattacharji (7 January 2018). "2018: All set to sparkle with new voices". Asian Age.
  6. Wadhwa, Soni (17 August 2020). ""Akbar: The Great Mughal" by Ira Mukhoty" . Retrieved 4 September 2020.
  7. Kochhar, Ritika (25 September 2021). "The queen of Dharma: Review of Ira Mukhoty's Song of Draupadi". The Hindu. Retrieved 9 October 2021.
  8. Mukhoty, Ira (2 August 2021). "This novel asks what would have happened if the Mahabharata had been the story of the women in it". Scroll.in. Retrieved 9 October 2021.(Book extract)
  9. Sharma, Parvati (16 August 2024). "'We really need to look at the myths we have been left with,' says Ira Mukhoty, author of The Lion and the Lily". The Hindu. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 27 October 2024.