
Biography
About Nandini
Nandini Sengupta is a Pondicherry-based writer and journalist. After a chance trip to the Ajanta and Ellora caves in 2007, she began researching third and fourth-century India, initially out of mere curiosity and later out of interest, which quickly deepened into an obsession with India’s glorious past. An avid reader of the historical genre, she has been researching for The King Within for the past eight years. Already a published author with several non-fiction titles to her credit, this is her first work of fiction. Nandini is forty-nine and lives in Pondicherry’s quaint French quarter with her little daughter Kiki.
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Rani Durgawati
Author awards shortlist 2023
The Forgotten Life of a Warrior Queen. Gond Rani Veerangana Durgawati, queen of the tribal kingdom of Garha Mandla, ruled more than 450 years ago and died fighting for her dharma.
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Our first academic paper alert! My friend Moupia Basu and I are honoured to be co-authors of a paper on India's veerangana tradition for Loyola Marymount University's Monsoon journal. Those interested do check it out in the link below
digitalcommons.lmu.edu/monsoon-sasa-journal/vol2/iss1/
My discussion on Rani Durgawati with Dr Jayanti Ravi at the Auroville Lit Fest
Reclaiming The Forgotten Queen
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Auroville litfest is a celebration of the written word, inspired by the Mother's vision of a world without borders. Our festival brings together writers, poe...
#PLF2023 was a wonderfully enriching experience and getting to share stage with people I admire and listen to some of the finest minds in India today made it particularly so. Meeting, listening to and chatting with the likes of Disha Ahluwalia, Swapan Dasgupta, Meenakshi Jain, Vikram Sampath, Gautam Chikermane, Devdip Ganguly, Prasenjit Basu, Vijayalakshmi Vijayakumar, Abhinav Agarwal, Shiv Aroor, Air Marshal Anil Chopra, CMDE Srikant Kesnur, Lalitha Kumarmangalam, Deep Haldar, Aloke Kumar and Anand Ranganathan was wonderful. A big thank you to the organizing trio of Partha Hariharan, Ajit Datta and Alo Pal
The Blue Horse And Other Amazing Animals From Indian History made it to the Bal Sahitya Puraskar shortlist. It didn't win but still I am chuffed