Roopa Pai
Roopa Pai, a Bangalore-based writer, columnist and speaker, is one of India's best-known children's authors. Many of her books are bestsellers, enjoyed equally by adults and children. Among them are the eight-part fantasy-adventure series, Taranauts, India's first complete fantasy–adventure series for children in English; the award-winning The Gita for Children, listed by Amazon India as one of 100 Indian books to read in a lifetime; The Vedas and Upanishads for Children; and The Yoga Sutras for Children.
When she is not writing, Roopa leads groups of children and young people on history and heritage walks across her beloved Bengaluru and Karnataka, as part of her job as director of a company she co-founded, BangaloreWalks.