Krishna Udayasankar is a graduate of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore and holds a PhD in Strategic Management from the Nanyang Business School, Singapore, where she presently works as a lecturer. Her bestselling debut novel, Govinda, the first in the Aryavarta Chronicles series of mytho-historical novels and its sequel Kaurava received critical acclaim. She is also the author of Objects of Affection, a full-length collection of poetry (Math Paper Press, 2013) and is an editor of Body Boundaries: The Etiquette Anthology of Women's Writing (The Literary Centre, Forthcoming, 2013).