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| image = Ira Trivedi, May 2012-2.jpg<br />
| caption = Ira Trivedi at the 2012 TED@Bangalore Talent Search conference<br />
| name = Ira Trivedi<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1984}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Lucknow]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], India<br />
| occupation = Novelist, columnist, yoga teacher<br />
| alma_mater = [[Wellesley College]]<br>[[Columbia Business School]] <br />
| genre = Fiction and nonfiction<br />
| notableworks = "The 10 minute Yoga Solution" <br/> ''My Book of Yoga''<br/>''India in Love: Marriage and Sexuality in the 21st century''<br/>''What Would You Do to Save the World?''<br />''The Great Indian Love Story''<br/> ''There's No Love on Wall Street''<br />
| website = {{URL|iratrivedi.in}}<br />
}}<br />
'''Ira Trivedi''' (born 1984) is an Indian author, columnist, and [[yoga]] teacher. Her works include ''India in Love: Marriage and Sexuality in the 21st century'', ''What Would You Do to Save the World?'' ([[Penguin Books]]), ''The Great Indian Love Story'' (Penguin Books), and ''There's No Love on Wall Street'' (Penguin Books).<br />
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==Background==<br />
Trivedi graduated from [[Wellesley College]] in 2006 with a degree in economics.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wellesley.edu/news/stories/node/28628|title=Author and Speaker Ira Trivedi Reflects on Wellesley Experience|last=|first=|date=|website=Wellesley College|language=en|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170816063310/http://www.wellesley.edu/news/stories/node/28628|archive-date=16 August 2017|access-date=2019-10-10}}</ref> She has an MBA from [[Columbia University]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Trivedi Credits Wellesley with Enriching Her Professional Life |url=https://www.wellesley.edu/news/stories/node/28628 |access-date=29 July 2019 |publisher=Wellesley College |date=August 22, 2012}}</ref><ref name="NYTimes-1">{{cite news |last1=Roy |first1=NilanjanaI S. |title=In India, the Tender Trap's a Vise |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/world/asia/15iht-letter15.html |access-date=28 July 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=August 14, 2012}}</ref><br />
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She is the founder of Namami Yoga,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://namamiyoga.com|title=Namami Yoga}}</ref> an organisation that brings yoga to adults and children in New Delhi. She writes for ''Deccan Chronicle'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/lifestyle/books/back-roots-152|title=Back to the roots|author=12 August 2011 By Ira Trivedi|date=13 August 2011|work=Deccan Chronicle|access-date=22 November 2012}}</ref> and ''The Telegraph''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110531/jsp/entertainment/story_14050726.jsp|title=The Telegraph – Calcutta (Kolkata) &#124; 75 years of Gone with the Wind|date=31 May 2011|work=The Telegraph|location=Kolkota|access-date=22 November 2012}}</ref> Trivedi speaks often on issues of gender, women and youth.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oouAx8r3Qu4|title=Ira's talks|access-date=30 June 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnIAt6HoYeY|title=Ira's News talks|access-date=16 April 2016}}</ref><br />
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==Works==<br />
===''India in Love: Marriage and Sexuality in the 21st Century''===<br />
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''India in Love: Marriage and Sexuality in the 21st Century'' is a 2014 non-fiction book about India's new social revolution in marriage and sexuality.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.firstpost.com/living/the-sexual-revolution-in-india-keeps-coming-and-coming-1396153.html|title=The sexual revolution in India keeps coming. And coming.|website=Firstpost|access-date=2019-10-10}}</ref> Trivedi traveled to over a dozen cities and interviewed 500 people including academics, policy makers, law-enforcers, and other participants in India's sexual and marriage revolution.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/india-in-love/arranged-marriage-in-a-love-struck-world/|title=Arranged marriage in a love-struck world|date=2014-01-30|website=Times of India Blog|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-10}}</ref><ref>[http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120324/ttlife1.htm On write lines ]</ref> <ref>[http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?283326 Chastity Begins At Home, And Ends In The Dorm]</ref><br />
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===''What Would You Do to Save the World?''===<br />
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This is a bare-all account of the beauty pageant process from application to the commonplace final question asked of finalists, that is the title of the book.{{Citation needed|date=October 2019}}<br />
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It has been termed as "an entertaining first novel" (''[[Deccan Herald]]'')<ref name="Deccan Herald May 2006">Deccan Herald, [http://archive.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/may212006/books1346522006518.asp 'BOOK RACK'], ''Deccan Herald'', 21 May 2006. Retrieved 10 November 2015.</ref> "with a letter-perfect analysis of the social phenomenon known as South Bombay..."(''[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook]]'').<ref name="Outlook India June 2006">Outlook India, [http://mcomments.outlookindia.com/story.aspx?sid=4&aid=231516 'The Cat Who Missed The Cream'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160202021025/http://mcomments.outlookindia.com/story.aspx?sid=4&aid=231516 |date=2 February 2016 }}, ''Outlook India'', 21 May 2006. Retrieved 12 June 2006.</ref><br />
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===''There's No Love on Wall Street''===<br />
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''There's no Love on Wall Street'' was released at the Jaipur Literature Festival by Pulitzer Prize winning author [[Junot Díaz]].<ref name="Deccan July2011">Ahmed Faiyaz, [http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/lifestyle/books/dreams-and-delusions-there%E2%80%99s-no-love-wall-street-460 'Dreams and delusions: There's No Love on Wall Street'], ''Deccan Chronicle'', 8 July 2011. Retrieved 17 October 2011.</ref> According to a ''DNA'' review, the book's "microscopic look at banking is severely convincing."<ref>Jayeeta Mazumder, [http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report_book-review-theres-no-love-on-wall-street_1537408 'Book Review: There's No Love On Wall Street'], Daily News & Analysis (DNA), 29 April 2011. Retrieved 5 June 2012.</ref><br />
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== Controversy ==<br />
Ira Trivedi triggered controversy over her remarks on beef consumption on Twitter.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dnaindia.com/india/photo-gallery-ira-trivedi-slammedfor-old-anti-hindu-and-beef-remarks-twitterati-ask-doordarshan-to-drop-her-show-2775912|title=Ira Trivedi slammed for old 'anti-Hindu' and beef remarks, Twitterati ask Doordarshan to drop her show {{!}} Latest News & Updates at DNAIndia.com|website=DNA India|language=en|access-date=2019-08-13}}</ref> Her show on yoga was subsequently dropped on [[Doordarshan]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aajtak.intoday.in/story/doordarshan-replace-ira-trivedi-after-outrage-over-her-anti-hindu-tweets-and-viral-video-on-beef-tmove-1-1105114.html|title=बीफ को बताया था सस्ता प्रोटीन, दूरदर्शन ने योग गुरु इरा त्रिवेदी को किया शो से बाहर|website=aajtak.intoday.in|language=hi|access-date=2019-08-13}}</ref> Trivedi accused [[Chetan Bhagat]] of sexual harassment in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=DelhiOctober 15|first1=India Today Web Desk New|last2=October 15|first2=2018UPDATED|last3=Ist|first3=2018 18:18|title=Ira Trivedi accuses Chetan Bhagat of harassment, says he tried to kiss her|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/lifestyle/celebrity/story/ira-trivedi-accuses-chetan-bhagat-of-harassment-says-he-tried-to-kiss-her-1368137-2018-10-15|access-date=2021-03-17|website=India Today|language=en}}</ref><br />
==Awards==<br />
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In 2015, Trivedi won the Devi Award for dynamism and innovation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eventxpress.com/devi2015/lucknow/|title=The Devis}}</ref> That same year, she was awarded a UK Media Award for best investigative article dealing with bride trafficking in India.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.antislaveryday.com/awards/media-awards/media-awards-2015/|title=Media Awards}}</ref><br />
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In 2017, Trivedi was chosen as one of the "BBC's 100 most influential women in the world. “<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-41380265 BBC World News]</ref><br />
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==External links==<br />
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*{{official website|http://www.iratrivedi.in}}<br />
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*[https://penguin.co.in/book_author/ira-trivedi/ Ira Trivedi] at [[Penguin India]]<br />
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