Krishna Deva Raya: King of Kings

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.

Archana Shrrenivasan is a Bangalore-based illustrator whose work has appeared in magazines, comics and books for children, in India and abroad. She studied animation film design at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, and attended a summer residency at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where she studied illustration. She's a nature lover, people-drawer, and would like very much to be a cat.