Winner of the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar (2017), Manu S Pillai is the author of The Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore (2015) and Rebel Sultans: The Deccan from Khilji to Shivaji (2018).
Formerly Chief of Staff to Dr Shashi Tharoor MP, he has, in the past, worked at the House of Lords in Britain, and with the BBC on their Incarnations history series. Manu is also text contributor to Serena Chopra’s Bhutan Echoes, and writes a weekly column for Mint Lounge. His other writings have appeared in The Hindu, Open Magazine, The Times of India, Hindustan Times, and other publications.