Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri

Generation Award as an Inspiration for Youth, among others. She is a distinguished fellow of the Indian Association of International Studies, and a visiting professor at the South Asian University, New Delhi.

Puri is also the author of the national bestseller and critically acclaimed novel Swallowing the Sun. The book has received several literary honours, including the Kalinga Literary  Award, the Delhi Literature Festival Fiction Prize, the Pandit Hari Dutt Sharma Award, the Special Jury Award at the FICCI Publishing Awards for Book of the Year–Fiction (English), and the REC-VoW Book Award for English Fiction. It is being translated into multiple Indian languages and adapted into a web series by Abundantia Entertainment.