Sunita Aron is a former executive editor, and now the consulting editor of the Hindustan Times in Lucknow. The first woman newspaper editor in Uttar Pradesh, Sunita has covered the state’s politics for over four decades and written extensively on the Ayodhya issue, the Mandal agitation and the rise and fall of regional forces in the country. Satraps, Coalitions and Power Games is her fourth book.