Mukul Kesavan (born 9 April 1957)[1][better source needed] is an Indian historian, novelist and political and social essayist.
He later attended Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge on an Inlaks scholarship, where he received an MLitt degree.
His first book, a novel titled Looking Through Glass (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1994) received international critical acclaim.
Kesavan is the co-editor of Civil Lines, a widely respected journal of Indian writing in English.
In 2014, The New Republic included his Homeless on Google Earth in its list of the year's best books, describing Kesavan as "[a] novelist and essayist, a historian and poet, a social commentator and public intellectual, [who] commands an enviable following in the Anglophone world beyond America and Britain".