Q&A | Ruby Lal and Dr. Uday S. Kulkarni | The Loft Forum | 22nd December, 2023
Ruby Lal is in conversation with Dr, Uday S. Kulkarni, following her talk on her new book "Vagabond Princess: the Great Adventures of Gulbadan".

About Ruby Lal
Los Angeles Times Finalist and Emory Professor, Ruby Lal is the author of Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan (NY: W. W. Norton, 2018, 2020), which won the Georgia Author of the Year Award in Biography and was a Finalist in History for the LA Times Book Prize. Among the top ten pick of the Time Magazine, The Telegraph and the Prospect Magazine London, EMPRESS has been lauded by The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New York Times, the BBC, The Indian Express, Business Standard and numerous other national and international journals, magazines and newspapers.

Lal has received numerous fellowships, among them from the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies (SCAS), Uppsala, Sweden, and as Visiting Public Humanities Fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto where she completed her latest biography, Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan (Yale University Press, Trade Books, February 2024).

About Dr. Uday S. Kulkarni
Dr. Uday S. Kulkarni is a Surgeon Commander (retired) of the Indian Navy and an alumnus of Armed Forces Medical College. He has written several critically acclaimed books on Maratha history, four of which have been translated into Marathi. He has been awarded the Shivsmruti Puraskar of the Shri Shivaji Raigad Mandal and the Abasaheb Mujumdar Puraskar, and is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.