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Gautam Malkani is a journalist for The Financial Times , and the author of the novel Londonstani . He has worked on the FT's UK news desk in London as well as in the Washington bureau. He is currently an associate editor on the FT Weekend Magazine, after a spell on the newspaper's Business Life section.

He was born in Hounslow, London on 27 August 1976. Malkani's mother was a Ugandan of Indian descent. He studied Social and Political Sciences at Christ's College, Cambridge. Malkani currently resides in London.

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