Sharath Komarraju
Sharath Komarraju began his professional life as a software engineer, but has renounced it all in favour of a writing desk and a word processor. His first book, Murder in Amaravati, was longlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize 2013. He is also the author of The Winds of Hastinapur, the first in a series that attempts to tell the story of Mahabharata from the perspective of its prominent women characters and Nari, his fifth novel.