Anirudh Kanisetti

Anirudh Kanisetti is the award-winning author of Lords of the Deccan, a new history of medieval South India. He received the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar in 2023 and the Tata Literature Best Nonfiction Book of the Year award in 2022. He writes the weekly Thinking Medieval column for ThePrint. Kanisetti was featured in THE WEEK’s 40 Under 40 list for India’s most promising creatives, as well as Open magazine’s Open Minds 2022 Soft Power list. His research has received grants from the Princeton Center for Digital Humanities and the India Foundation for the Arts. His writings and work have been featured in The Hindu, The New Indian Express, LiveMint, and other prestigious publications. Kanisetti was formerly Editor at the Museum of Art and Photography and Associate Fellow at the Takshashila Institution. He hosts three popular and critically acclaimed podcasts – Echoes of India, Yuddha and The Altar of Time.