Ruchir Joshi

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Ruchir Joshi
Born1960 (age 6465)
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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References

  1. 1 2 "Ruchir Joshi-profile". Granta. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
  2. Datta, Kanika (20 March 2015). "Lunch with BS: Vir Sanghvi". Business Standard India.
  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)
  4. "Bricks must fall".
  5. Sawhney, Hirsh (2007). Delhi Noir. Akashic books. ISBN   9781933354781.
  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.
  7. "Ruchir Joshi-profile". The traveling archive. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
  8. Joshi, Ruchir (13 June 2010). "Good director of Calcutta – One of the most innovative directorial minds in the country". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 18 June 2010. Retrieved 27 January 2012.