Anirudh Kanisetti

Anirudh Kanisetti is the author of Lords of the Deccan, a new history of medieval South India. He received the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Paraskar in 2023 and the Tata Literature Best Nonfiction Book of the Year award in 2022. He writes the weekly Thinking Medieval column for ThePrint. Anirudh was formerly Editor at the Museum of Art and Photography and Associate Fellow at the Takshashila Institution. He hosts three critically acclaimed podcasts – Echoes of India, Yuddha and The Altar of Time.