Akshaya Mukul
Independent Researcher | Author | Journalist
About
A celebrated writer and journalist, Mr. Mukul is the award-winning author of “Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India (2015)” and “Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Lover: The Many Lives of Agyeya (2022).” The book on Gita Press has won prestigious accolades like the Tata Book Prize and Ramnath Goenka Award. His Agyeya biography won the Kamaladevi Chattaopadhyay NIF Book Prize. With fellowships from New India Foundation, Homi Bhabha, and Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund, Akshaya has contributed to key literary compilations such as “A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English (2005)”, “Keywords for India: A Conceptual Lexicon for the 21st Century”, and “A Functioning Anarchy: Essays for Ramachandra Guha”. Currently, he’s crafting a comprehensive biography of Jayaprakash Narayan. In a two-decade political journalism career, he has made a mark at the Times of India, Hindustan Times, Pioneer, and the Asian Age.