Rajesh Talwar

,India

Rajesh Talwar is an international award- winning author of 44 books, across multiple genres which includes plays, novels, children's books, self-help books, and non-fiction works on social justice, law, culture and other subjects.

His plays range from contemporary events to historical retellings, and his novels span subjects as diverse as aesthetics, terrorism and the intricacies of the Indian legal system.

Among his non-fiction books on legal and political subjects are Courting Injustice: The Nirbhaya Case and its Aftermath (Hay House; 2013) and The Mahatma's Manifesto: A Critique of Hind Swaraj (Om Books International; 2025).

The Bearded Prince, The Three Greens (Orient BlackSwan; 2017) and The Boy Who Wrote a Constitution (Ponytale Books; 2022) are three of his well-known children's books.

Rajesh has worked for the United Nations in senior positions across three continents over a period of two decades and regularly contributes to both domestic and foreign publications. He has studied for shorter and longer durations at Nottingham, Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford and Hindu College, Delhi University.

Rajesh studied filmmaking at the London Film Academy (LFA) and is currently producing and co-directing an AI generated animated feature film on toxic terror titled ‘Smoky Sky Songs.

Fresh from being honored as an Outstanding Achiever at the UK Parliament at the India/UK Achievers Awards 2026, and building on the Alumni Laureate Award from Nottingham in 2025, Rajesh Talwar now turns his lens to the global crossroads of film in his new book Bollywood, Hollywood and the Future of World Cinema.

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