Bestselling author, columnist and yoga professional, Ira Trivedi is a well-known voice on national and international forums for issues of gender, women and youth. She has written eight avant-garde novels and has covered genres of fiction as well as non-fiction. Her writings have been translated into numerous languages, and she continues to write for leading publications in India and around the world, including Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy.
Her first work of non-fiction “India in Love: Marriage and Sexuality in the 21st Century” unfolds India’s new social revolution in marriage and sexuality and dwells on the major social changes that Indian society is going through in the 21st century. She has extensively described people, academics, law-enforcement and policy-making that determine the revolution of sexuality and marriage in our country. Another famous book is Could-have-been Beauty Queen which is Ira’s bare-all account as a beauty pageant participant. It is a very entertaining first novel that profoundly analyzed the realities of South Bombay.
Ira Trivedi has been chosen one of the “BBC’s 100 most influential women in the world” in 2017. She has also won, in 2015, the Devi Award for dynamism and innovation. For the best investigative article dealing with bride trafficking in India, she was also awarded the UK Media Award in the same year. Pulitzer Prize winning author, Junot Díaz, released her book There’s no Love on Wall Street, at the Jaipur Literature festival that was appreciated for its severely convincing microscopic look on the banking sector.
This influencer from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, attended Daly School, Indore and further pursued her bachelor’s in economics (B.Econ) from Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA. She also pursued a post-graduate course in business administration (MBA) from Columbia Business School, where she won the prestigious Feldberg Fellowship.
The wanderess has travelled to three continents, four countries and nine cities. Currently, she runs two yoga shows on India Today and Doordarshan National, teaches yoga to underprivileged children at Namami Yoga Foundation and discusses cultural and gender norms on platforms/news channels across the world.
