Monisha Rajesh is a British journalist whose writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian and the Financial Times. She is the author of ‘Around the World in 80 Trains’ which was shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book Award and won the National Geographic Traveller Award for Best Book. In 2023, she was named on Condé Nast Traveller’s Women Who Travel Power List. Her latest books, ‘Moonlight Express: Around the World by Night Train’ and ‘The Untold Railway Stories’ are out now.