About Ira
Ira Trivedi is a best-selling author and Yoga Acharya. She has written eight books across genres, including fiction, non-fiction, and children’s literature. Her landmark book India in Love: Marriage and Sexuality in the 21st Century explores the social revolution underway in modern India around relationships and sexuality.
Ira’s books have been published by leading publishing houses both in India and internationally, and have been translated into multiple languages. She also writes regularly for top publications around the world, including Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy.
She has received numerous awards for her work, including the UK Media Award for her reporting on bride trafficking, and the New Indian Express Devi Women’s Award for dynamism and innovation. In 2017, she was named one of the BBC’s 100 most influential women in the world. Ira is a frequent guest on global news channels, offering insights on gender, culture, and social change.
In addition to her writing, Ira is a Master of Yoga (Yoga Acharya). She has hosted two yoga shows on Indian television — one on Doordarshan National, India’s public broadcaster, and another on India Today, a leading English-language news channel. She is the author of The 10-Minute Yoga Solution and the My Book of Yoga series featuring Om the Yoga Dog. Ira teaches yoga across the globe and was part of the core team leading the first International Day of Yoga at Rajpath, New Delhi, where two Guinness World Records were created — for the largest yoga lesson and for the most nationalities participating in a yoga session.
She is the founder of Namami Yoga, a charitable foundation that teaches yoga and essential life skills to underprivileged children.
Ira has lived across four countries, nine cities, and three continents. She holds a BA in Economics from Wellesley College, Massachusetts, and an MBA from Columbia Business School, where she was awarded the prestigious Feldberg Fellowship for outstanding leadership potential and academic excellence.
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Ira currently resides in Mumbai, India.
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