Manu S Pillai

Author, Columnist & ex-Chief of Staff to Shashi Tharoor (MP)

Twists and Tales Yuva Sahithya Academi Award winner and one of the brilliant young brigade of writers, Manu S Pillai will be talking to Preethi Maroli, Global Business Director of JWT, London, about his new book, intriguingly titled The Courtesan, the Mahatma & the Italian Brahmin! To know all about it come listen to him @ the Mysuru Literature Festival on 14th July, 2018 at Hotel Southern Star!

Manu’s previous works are the award winning The Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore (2015) and Rebel Sultans: The Deccan from Khilji to Shivaji (2018). His essays are also published in the Mint Lounge, The Hindu, Hindustan Times, Open Magazine, The New States.
Interact with Manu & other stalwarts from the literary world at the Mysuru Literature Festival on July 13th and July 14th, 2019 at Hotel Southernstar Mysore