Anuja Chandramouli


Anuja Chandramouli is an Indian author of fantasy and historical fiction.

Education and career

Chandramouli was encouraged to write and enter creative writing competitions by her English teacher at school. She has a bachelor's degree in psychology from Women's Christian College Chennai and a master's degree in English.
She is the author of seven novels. Her works often feature protagonists from Indian mythology. She has also written novels in the High Fantasy genre; Yama’s Lieutenant and its sequel Yama’s Lieutenant and the Stone witch.
Her debut novel Arjuna: Saga of a Pandava Warrior Prince was published in 2012. In 2013, it was named as one of the top 5 books in the Indian Writing category by Amazon India. Three of her novels, Arjuna: Saga of a Pandava Warrior Prince, Kamadeva: The God of Desire and Shakti: The Divine Feminine are set to be translated into Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati and Bengali from the English.
Her 2017 novel, The Burning Queen tells the story of Rani Padmavati, a 13th–14th century Indian queen originally fictionalised in the epic poem by Malik Muhammad Jayasi. It was published in the wake of controversy around the production of a film on the same subject, of Rani Padmavati, Padmaavat, directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Her new book Ganga: The Constant Goddess is published in 2018.
Chandramouli has also contributed articles, short stories and book reviews in publications such as The New Indian Express, the English-language newspaper The Hindu, and Femina magazine. She has her youtube story telling channel with the complete story of Mahabaratha. bit.ly/storywithanuja.
In 2017, she appeared at the Women Writers’ Fest in Bengaluru, speaking on whether gender influences narratives in mythology.
She cites Veda Vyasa as her inspiration to originally start writing books, and the Mahabharata as her favourite story.

Personal life

Chandramouli married in 2005, and has two daughters.