Welcome to the official Goodreads Author page of Aditya Magal!
Magal is a writer and columnist based out of India.
Primarily a storyteller, his literary influences include RK Narayan, Agatha Christie, Jerome K Jerome, JRR Tolkien, JK Rowling, Jhumpa Lahiri, C.Rajagopalachari, Charles Dickens, Arundhati Roy, Roald Dahl and countless others.
He is also a huge manga and comic book nerd. Influences include Masashi Kishimoto, Hiromu Arakawa, Stan Lee, Alan Moore, Hajime Isayama, Kouta Hirano, Rumiko Takahashi, Amar Chitra Katha and more.
His first novel titled 'How To Become A Billionaire By Selling Nothing'; a satire based on business and consumerism was released by Penguin Random House in 2014.
He currently writes feature op-eds for the newspaper Bangalore Mirror under the column titled 'Notes From the 560'.
He has also been a columnist for HT Brunch magazine; In addition he has written for Hindustan Times, The Economic Times, Outlook Magazine, JAM, The Quint and others.
Magal has gained popularity primarily as a Humorist and Satirist, though he has written non-humorous material too. He ran the satire blog The Secret Journal of Rakesh Jhunjhunwala based on Legendary Indian Investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala. {Currently defunct, can be viewed here:
http://www.rakeshjhunjhunwala.in/}