Roopa Pai

ROOPA PAI is one of India's best-known children's authors. Many of her books, including the award-winning The Gita for Children, are bestsellers and are enjoyed as much by adults as by children. She also writes extensively about her hometown, Bangalore; she recently published Becoming Bangalore, a compilation of her newspaper columns on the city. When she is not writing or translating, this proud daughter of Karnataka leads heritage walks for young people in her beloved Bangalore.