Ira Trivedi

Ira Trivedi (born 1984) is an Indian author, columnist, and yoga teacher. Her works include India in Love: Marriage and Sexuality in the 21st century, What Would You Do to Save the World? (Penguin Books), The Great Indian Love Story (Penguin Books), and There's No Love on Wall Street (Penguin Books). She writes both fiction and nonfiction on issues of women and gender in India.

Ira Trivedi
Born1984 (age 36–37)
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
OccupationNovelist, columnist, yoga teacher
Alma materWellesley College
Columbia Business School
GenreFiction and nonfiction
Notable works"The 10 minute Yoga Solution"
My Book of Yoga
India in Love: Marriage and Sexuality in the 21st century
What Would You Do to Save the World?
The Great Indian Love Story
There's No Love on Wall Street
Website
iratrivedi.in

Background

Trivedi graduated from Wellesley College in 2006 with a degree in economics.[1] She has an MBA from Columbia University.[2][3]

She is the founder of Namami Yoga,[4] an organisation that brings yoga to adults and children. The Foundation conducts yoga classes in New Delhi. She writes for Deccan Chronicle,[5] and The Telegraph.[6] Her writing is mostly on issues of gender and culture in India. Trivedi regularly appears on news channels in India and speaks internationally on issues of gender, women and youth.[7][8]

Works

India in Love: Marriage and Sexuality in the 21st Century

India in Love: Marriage and Sexuality in the 21st Century is a 2014 non-fiction book about India's new social revolution in marriage and sexuality.[9] It describes the major social changes that Indian society is going through in the 21st century. Trivedi traveled to over a dozen cities and interviewed 500 people including academics, policy makers, law-enforcers, and other participants in India's sexual and marriage revolution.[10][11] India in Love is her first work of non-fiction, and it is divided into sections on sexuality and marriage.[12]

What Would You Do to Save the World?

According to The Times of India, for the first time, a "'Could-have-been Beauty Queen', Ira Trivedi, a beauty pageant participant, pens a bare-all account of the process from application to the commonplace final question asked of the five finalists, that is the title of her book, What Would You Do to Save the World?" (Penguin Books).

It has been termed as "an entertaining first novel" (Deccan Herald)[13] "with a letter-perfect analysis of the social phenomenon known as South Bombay..."(Outlook).[14]

There's No Love on Wall Street

There's no Love on Wall Street was released at the Jaipur Literature Festival by Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Díaz.[15] According to a DNA review, the book's "microscopic look at banking is severely convincing. Plus, the BlackBerry is where it rightfully belongs, in banking, and not in the manicured palms of teen princesses."[16]

Controversy

Ira Trivedi triggered controversy over her remarks on the beef consumption and allegedly 'Anti-Hindu' tweets on Twitter.[17] After controversy, she was dropped from her yoga show on Doordarshan.[18]

Awards

In 2015, Trivedi won the Devi Award for dynamism and innovation.[19] In the same year, she was awarded the UK Media Award for the best investigative article dealing with bride trafficking in India.[20]

In 2017, Trivedi was chosen as one of the "BBC's 100 most influential women in the world. “[21]

References
  1. "Author and Speaker Ira Trivedi Reflects on Wellesley Experience". Wellesley College. Archived from the original on 16 August 2017. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  2. "Trivedi Credits Wellesley with Enriching Her Professional Life". Wellesley College. 22 August 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  3. Roy, NilanjanaI S. (14 August 2012). "In India, the Tender Trap's a Vise". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
  4. "Namami Yoga".
  5. 12 August 2011 By Ira Trivedi (13 August 2011). "Back to the roots". Deccan Chronicle. Retrieved 22 November 2012.
  6. "The Telegraph – Calcutta (Kolkata) | 75 years of Gone with the Wind". The Telegraph. Kolkota. 31 May 2011. Retrieved 22 November 2012.
  7. "Ira's talks". Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  8. "Ira's News talks". Retrieved 16 April 2016.
  9. "The sexual revolution in India keeps coming. And coming". Firstpost. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  10. "Arranged marriage in a love-struck world". Times of India Blog. 30 January 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  11. On write lines
  12. Chastity Begins At Home, And Ends In The Dorm
  13. Deccan Herald, 'BOOK RACK', Deccan Herald, 21 May 2006. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
  14. Outlook India, 'The Cat Who Missed The Cream' Archived 2 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Outlook India, 21 May 2006. Retrieved 12 June 2006.
  15. Ahmed Faiyaz, 'Dreams and delusions: There's No Love on Wall Street', Deccan Chronicle, 8 July 2011. Retrieved 17 October 2011.
  16. Jayeeta Mazumder, 'Book Review: There's No Love On Wall Street', Daily News & Analysis (DNA), 29 April 2011. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
  17. "Ira Trivedi slammed for old 'anti-Hindu' and beef remarks, Twitterati ask Doordarshan to drop her show | Latest News & Updates at DNAIndia.com". DNA India. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  18. "बीफ को बताया था सस्ता प्रोटीन, दूरदर्शन ने योग गुरु इरा त्रिवेदी को किया शो से बाहर". aajtak.intoday.in (in Hindi). Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  19. "The Devis".
  20. "Media Awards".
  21. BBC World News
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