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My first job was a reporter on the
Kingston Whig Standard, in Kingston, Ontario, but
I was fired because of my colour when a new editor
took over. He was frank. He said my presence in the
newsroom disturbed him. I went to London and worked
and wrote for The Guardian, The Sunday Times and other
newspapers and magazines.
My first novel, The
Marriage, was published in the UK and India.
Since then, I’ve written 17 books which have
been translated into several languages. Thirteen are
works of fiction, including the best seller TAJ
that was translated into 14 languages which Penguin
India re-issued. THE SMALL HOUSE, a novel, was published
in 2007. In April 2008, Penguin published my new non-fiction
work LIMPING TO THE CENTRE OF
THE WORLD, a journey to Mount Kailas.
My new work of fiction is a young
adult novel, CHILDREN OF THE ENCHANTED JUNGLE published
by Scholastic in 2009.
Currently, I’m working on
a sweeping adventure trilogy in which a magical black
dog and six teenage children have to seek the help
of Isaac Newton, Einstein, Alexander the Great, among
others, and enter a parallel universe, to find the
key that will send the evil Gondwana kingdom, released
from the deep by a massive earthquake, back down to
the bottom.
I wrote
and produced the Award winning film THE
SQUARE CIRCLE. It was shown in many film festivals,
including London. TIME magazine voted it ‘one
of the ten best films of the year’. It opened
in London at the Curzon, Shaftsbury Avenue. All the
broadsheets gave it very good reviews.
In 1999,
I adapted and directed it as a stage play for the
Leicester Haymarket Theatre,
an exciting experience. Parminder
K. Nagra of ‘Bend it Like Beckham’
fame played the main lead.
I now live
in my ancestral house with my wife and dogs, and play
tennis. I also write a bi-monthly column for the New
Sunday Express.
In 2002,
I was given the ‘R.K. Narayan Award’ for
my novels and for my work in cinema and theatre.
