Archives: Authors

Saroo Brierley is an India-born Australian businessman. He grew up with an adopted family in Tasmania, Australia.

Mainland China is India’s largest chain of fine-dining Chinese restaurants with over twenty-eight outlets around the country. It has won many awards since its launch in1994, the most recent being the Golden Spoon Award in 2008 and 2009, and the Times Good Food Awards in 2009 and 2010. Anjan Chatterjee is the founder of Mainland China.

Supriya Dravid has worked as a journalist in both print and broadcasting. This is her first novel.

Juhi Sinha has written for several newspapers and magazines in India, including the Times of India, Indian Express, the Hindustan Times, Reader’s Digest, Swagat, Femina and Discover India, as a freelancer journalist. Her Short stories have won prizes in international competitions (BBC and the Tom Howard short – story contest,USA). She is also involved with production, scripting and direction of television programmes and films.

Paro Anand can’t stop writing, and has written twenty-three books so
far, for children, young adults and adults. She also works with children
in schools and NGOs through her programme Literature in Action.
She is a world-record holder for helping children make the World’s
Longest Newspaper. She has performed her stories in many parts of India,
UK, France and Switzerland. She has been awarded for her contribution
to children’s literature by The Russian Centre for Science and Culture.
Her work has been listed on the IBBY Honour List. You can catch her in
action at www.avantgardediaries.com and www.paroanand.com

Yasmin Khan was born in London. She is a University Lecturer in
British history at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Kellogg
College. The Great Partition is her first book. It has won the Gladstone
Prize from the Royal Historical Society and been translated into
Hindi and Urdu.