CEO & Principal Agent:

Graduated from the University of Delhi with Bachelors in Commerce, I joined the legendry booksellers – BAHRISONS at Khan Market, New Delhi. After having worked with the bookstore for 20 odd years under the tutorship of Balraj Bahri, I looked at other avenues in the book trade and added a small publishing division called Tara- India Research Press, and a literary agency called Red Ink, to the existing line of business as a bookseller. Thirty-five years later, with an all-round experience as a bookseller, publisher and literary agent, - I head the group of BAHRI.

Head of Editorial (Books and Films)

All books talk, and I am listening. Tell a story simply, and tell it well! I am looking for books that engage, entertain and inform. I read everything from thrillers to fantasy, young adult to historical fiction, classics to narrative non-fiction. Some favourites from an endless list, includes Conn Iggulden, Rick Riordan, Erin Morgenstern, JRR Tolkien, Neil Gaiman, Sarah J Maas, Stuart Turton, James Patterson (of Alex Cross books), Lee Child, Brad Thor, Salman Rushdie, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Upmanyu Chatterjee, and Richard Dawkins. I’ve been a journalist for twelve years, and then an editor for more than that time. I spend my time reading and editing, looking for that one gem that will take the world by storm.

Editor

At Red Ink, I focus on developing mostly high quality literary and historical fiction, with a keen interest in women’s writing and diasporic literature. I am also very interested in acquiring debut writing. 

I am also the author of Remnants of Partition: 21 Objects from a Continent Divided (Hurst, 2019) and Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory (HarperCollins India, 2017).

 Assistant Agent and Editor:

I enjoy reading stories that have a strong plot and immerses the reader in the narrative from the get-go. I like reading across genres but I mostly gravitate towards young and new adult, literary and commercial fiction. I will read anything written by Sally Rooney, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Emily Henry, and Cassandra Clare.

Communications, Media, PR

I’m the public relations and media relations manager. My association with communications and storytelling goes back to having founded India’s first spoken word poetry group, and later working towards content and brand building at BYJU’s, S Chand publications, Pravah Foundation, among others. I believe that partnerships are the keystone of any organisation and I’m passionate towards building liaisons which help the organisation sustain its story.

Marketing and Promotion

Copyeditor

I come from a background of journalism, travel, and subversion. Alongside an on-again, off-again relationship with long fiction, readings that always get me going are: short stories and personal essays, eco fiction and non-fiction, personal memoirs, critical writings on politics, culture and society, urban non-fiction, and zines.

Assistant Editor

I read because I don’t know another way to make sense of life. So give me stories that aren’t in a hurry to get somewhere, characters that I will begin to care for, scenes that make me shut the book for a second because they’ve shifted something in my brain. Among authors that I’ve come to love are Akwaeke Emezi, Carmen Maria Machado, Jeanette Winterson, N.K. Jemisin, Deborah Levy, Banana Yoshimoto, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ocean Vuong, Arundhati Roy, Ursula Le Guin, Terry Pratchett; the list is endless.