Roopa Pai is
children's author and journalist[2] living in
Bangalore, India. She has over 20 published books which include the India's first
fantasy-adventure series for children Taranauts and the national best seller The Gita for Children which also won the 2016
Crossword Award for children's writing.
She started writing during her 11th standard, first writing articles for the Deccan Herald. She went on to complete her Engineering degree and moved to Delhi after her marriage. Here she started writing for the children's magazine Target. The couple eventually shifted to London where she wrote articles covering
Indian restaurants in London, for the Travel Trends magazine. She was also commissioned by the
British Tourism Authority to cover hotels and accommodations for Indian tourists across the UK. The couple eventually moved back to Bangalore.[5]