Ruchir Joshi

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Ruchir Joshi
Born1960
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
OccupationWriter
NationalityIndian
Genre Historical fiction
Notable works The Last Jet Engine Laugh

Ruchir Joshi is an Indian writer, a filmmaker and a columnist for The Telegraph , India Today as well as other publications. He is best known for his debut novel titled The Last Jet-Engine Laugh (2001). He is also the editor of India's first anthology of contemporary erotica Electric Feather: The Tranquebar Book of Erotic Stories, published by Tranquebar Press/Westland. He has two sons, aged sixteen and twelve. [1]

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Life

Ruchir Joshi is the son of writer and dramatist Shivkumar Joshi. Born in 1960, he was brought up in Kolkata. He was educated at Mayo College, Ajmer. [2] [3] He went to the United States of America in 1979, to study in an undergraduate college in Vermont. [4] He moved to New Delhi in 1997 and stayed there till 2007. Since then he has been shuttling between London and Delhi. [5] [6]

Work

Apart from writing regular columns in newspapers and magazines, Joshi made a film on Bauls in 1992. It is called Egaro Mile (Eleven Miles). [7] Early in his life, when he was just out of school, he decided to take up acting and performed in an English play called You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown directed by Zarin Chaudhuri. [8] He wrote a piece called Tracing Puppa which was published in Granta 109 in a series of recollections regarding fathers. [1]

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  3. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 September 2017. Retrieved 25 September 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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  6. Robyn Davidson Davidson (11 November 2009). The Best Australian Essays 2009: Easyread Comfort Edition. ReadHowYouWant.com. p. 544. ISBN   978-1-4587-4229-2.
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