Krishna Udayasankar is a Singapore-based Indian author, known for her modern retelling of Mahabharata through the novel cycle, The Aryavarta Chronicles (Govinda, Kaurava and Kurukshetra).^[1] She is also the author of Immortal, 3 - a novel on the founding of Singapore - and Objects of Affection – a book of prose-poems.

Personal life and education

A graduate of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore, Krishna holds a PhD in Strategic Management from the Nanyang Business School, Singapore and has published two textbooks: International Business: An Asian Perspective (2015) and Global Business Today (2014).^[2] Her book Beast (2019), an urban fantasy thriller is published by Penguin Random House, who have also taken over the rights for her entire backlist of five novels. In a session at the Bangalore Literary Festival in 2018, Udayasankar spoke of how she started writing fiction entirely by accident, and that her first work, The Aryavarta Chronicles, started out as a satirical poem.^[3]

Krishna lives in Singapore with her family.^[4]

Books

• Govinda (novel) (Hachette India, 2012)
• Objects of Affection (poetry anthology) (Math Paper Press, 2013)
• Body Boundaries: The Etiquette Anthology of Women's Writing (non-fiction) (The Literary Centre,2013)
• Kaurava (novel) (Hachette India, 2013)
• Kurukshetra (novel) (Hachette India, 2014)
• 3 (novel) (Hachette, 2015)
• Immortal (Hachette India, 2016)
• Beast (Penguin India, 2019)^[5]
• Buddha (Penguin India, TBA)^[6]- Forthcoming
• The Cowherd Prince