Radhika Iyengar

Radhika Iyengar is an award-winning journalist with a Master?s degree in Journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York. In 2020, she was awarded the Charles Wallace India Trust fellowship at University of Kent, UK. She won the Red Ink award for Excellence in Indian Journalism (2018), was a writer-in-residence at Sangam House, Bengaluru (2019), and a recipient of the Sanskriti Prabha Dutt Fellowship (2016-2017). In 2024, Radhika was invited to be a writer-in-residence at Ahmedabad Writing Programme, Ahmedabad University. Her bestselling book, Fire on the Ganges, was longlisted for the Debut Book Award at the AutHer Awards and has won the Kalinga Literary Award (Youth) and the Gaurang River Literary Prize for Best Non-Fiction.