Smt. Sumedha Verma Ojha is an author, columnist and speaker, born in Patna and educated in Delhi, graduate in Economics (Lady Sriram College) and post-graduate in Sociology (Delhi School of economics).

After 15 years in the Indian Revenue Service, she switched careers to research and write a book set in the Mauryan period based on the Arthashastra of Chanakya. ‘Urnabhih’ then expanded into a book series on the Mauryan Empire.

Sumedha is a Member of the Editorial Advisory Board at Indica Today an Indic Academy platform. She works in the area of translating and explaining the epics and bringing ancient Sanskrit/Prakrit literature to the English-speaking Indian as also in the area of a gendered analysis of ancient India.