Pranay Lal is a biochemist by training and works for a non-profit organisation on public health. He has been a caricaturist for newspapers, an animator for an advertising agency and an environmental campaigner. His first book, Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent was published by Allen Lane in December 2016 which won the best non-fiction debut award at the Tata Lit Fest in Mumbai in 2017, the best book award at the Delhi Book Fair 2017, and was named among the top 10 memorable books of the year by Amazon and The Hindu’s non-fiction list of 2017. Right now he is working on the following books Malabarica: A Deep Natural History of the Malabar, The Cretaceous: The Golden Age of Dinosaurs, Climate Change Book, Indian Dinosaurs and Indica for Kids.
His books:
Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent
Invisible Empire: The Natural History of Viruses
Malabarica: A Deep Natural History of the Malabar
The Cretaceous: The Golden Age of Dinosaurs
Climate Change History (forthcoming)
India-nama: A Child’s Guide to Nature’s Wonders of the Indian Subcontinent (forthcoming)
Indian Dinosaurs (forthcoming)