Akshat Gupta
Bestselling author of The Hidden Hindu trilogy and Hindi-English speculative fiction.
Akshat Gupta is an Indian author best known for The Hidden Hindu trilogy, published by Penguin Random House India, which fuses Hindu mythology with a modern thriller structure and has been a commercial success across Indian bookstores and online retailers.
Before full-time writing he worked in film and television, and continues to write screenplays alongside his fiction. His stage appearances are typically at literature festivals, campus events, and book-launch conversations, where he speaks about writing mythology for a contemporary audience and the mechanics of building a bestselling series.
He is a fit for events where the theme is storytelling, mythology, or craft - particularly where the organiser wants a younger, commercially-tuned voice on Indian literary platforms.
- Writing mythology for modern readers
- Building a bestselling series
- Screenwriting and fiction craft
- Indian storytelling today
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