Divya Narain Upadhyaya

Divya Narain Upadhyaya is a medical doctor and a professor of plastic surgery at King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, India. His fields of interest in clinical medicine are cleft and craniofacial surgery and treating brachial plexus injuries. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and has trained extensively in cranio-maxillofacial and paediatric plastic surgery from the United States and Switzerland. He is an international fellow of the American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons and an AO-CMF Fellow. 

His primary literary interests lie in Indian scriptures, Indic religions and Indian history. He writes about a variety of topics. He has previously authored three books, The Battle of Panchavati and Other Short Stories from Indian Scriptures (2019), Daffodils: A Bouquet of Short Stories (2020) and Finding Shankara: A Dramatized Biography of Adi Shankaracharya (2025).