Jyoti Thottam is a senior Opinion editor at The New York Times, and was previously a reporter, editor and foreign correspondent. From 2008 to 2012, she was Time’s South Asia Bureau Chief in New Delhi, where she wrote numerous cover stories, including award-winning stories about the Ganges River and the Mumbai terrorist attacks. Born in India, she grew up in Texas and graduated from Yale and Columbia. She lives with her family in Brooklyn. Her first book, Sisters Of Mokama: The Pioneering Women Who Brought Hope and Healing to India, has recently been published by Penguin Random House.

Read an excerpt from Jyoti’s book in The New York Times Sunday Review.

Available in bookstores April 12

Praise for Sisters Of Mokama
“A vivid and uplifting portrait…
full of complex characters and intriguing historical tidbits, this is a rousing story of hope and determination.”

— Publishers Weekly