Shri Pankaj Dubey is a pop-culture storyteller, bilingual novelist with Penguin Random House, columnist, podcaster, and curator of leading literary festivals. A former broadcaster with the BBC World Service, London, he now hosts the YouTube show Small Towns Big Stories.

He is the bestselling author of several popular novels, including What a Loser!, Ishqiyapa, Love Curry, Trending in Love, and his latest Penguin release, One String Attached.

Pankaj Dubey is also the founder of the Sadak Chhaap Film Festival, a unique street film festival for children from slums and villages. He is widely recognised for bringing small-town narratives to national and global platforms through his writing, films, and creative initiatives.