Ira Mukhoty
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Ira Mukhoty is an Indian author.{{cite web|title=Ira Mukhoty|date=29 December 2016 |url=http://www.alephbookcompany.com/authors/ira-mukhoty/|publisher=Aleph Book Company|accessdate=2 April 2018}}{{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}} She studied natural sciences at University of Cambridge.{{cite news|date=3 November 2017|title=Ira Mukhoty|work=Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/litfest/litfest-2017/speakers/ira-mukhoty/articleshow/61103258.cms|accessdate=2 April 2018}}
Career
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.{{cite news|last1=Roy|first1=Vaishna|date=25 March 2017|title=Ascent of a woman|work=The Hindu|url=http://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/ascent-of-a-woman/article17648013.ece|accessdate=2 April 2018}}
Her second book [https://books.google.com/books?id=XjaYuQEACAAJ 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.{{cite news|title=2018: All set to sparkle with new voices| work=Asian Age|date=7 January 2018| last=Rose|first= Jaya Bhattacharji|url=http://www.asianage.com/books/070118/2018-all-set-to-sparkle-with-new-voices.html}} 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".{{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}}
In 2021, her debut novel Song of Draupadi was published. The book reimagines Mahabharata through the narration of its women characters, particularly Draupadi.{{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}}{{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)
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.{{Cite news |last=Sharma |first=Parvati |date=2024-08-16 |title=‘We really need to look at the myths we have been left with,’ says Ira Mukhoty, author of The Lion and the Lily |url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/india-history-colonial-awadh-rule-politics-dynasty/article68515780.ece |access-date=2024-10-27 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}
Bibliography
=Fiction=
- Song of Draupadi: A Novel. (2021) {{ISBN|9789390652242}}
=Non-fiction=
- Heroines: Powerful Indian Women of Myth & History. (2017) {{ISBN|9789384067496}}
- Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire. (2018) {{ISBN|9789386021120}}
- Akbar: The Great Mughal. (2020) {{ISBN|9789389836042}}
- The Lion and The Lily: The Rise and Fall of Awadh. (2024) {{ISBN|9788119635979}}
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