Ira Trivedi

Ira Trivedi is the best-selling author of four books, most recently of India in Love, a seminal work of nonfiction on India's sexual revolution. Ira is a contributor to Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy and several others where her work on gender and culture has won several awards. She has been called one of India's most important youth voices, and she speaks regularly to media and forums in India and internationally. 

When Ira is not writing, she is teaching yoga. She is the founder of the NGO Namami Yoga and most recently she led the 1st international day of yoga celebrations at Rajpath, New Delhi where 36,000 people including the Prime Minister did yoga, creating a world record.