Madhulika Liddle is a novelist and award-winning short story writer. She is best-known as the author of the Muzaffar Jang series, about a 17th century Mughal detective, though she also writes other novels and short stories in different genres and across themes ranging from black humour to social awareness, crime to romance. She was the first Indian to win the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association’s Short Story Competition, in 2003, and the first Indian to be longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Competition, the world’s richest short story prize, in 2016. Her historical novel An Unholy Drought was shortlisted for the Crossword Book Awards Best Fiction Book category in 2025.
Madhulika also writes fiction in other genres, such as social issues and humour, besides writing on cinema, food, and travel. She blogs at www.madhulikaliddle.com.