Tulika Mehrotra

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Tulika Mehrotra
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Born Lucknow, India
OccupationTechnology executive and author
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
European Institute of Design
Notable worksDelhi Stopover, Crashing B-Town
Website
tulikamehrotra.com.

Tulika Mehrotra is an American technology executive and author. [1] Her novels Delhi Stopover and Crashing B-Town, published by Penguin Books, were bestsellers in India. [2]

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Early life and education

Tulika Mehrotra is based in Chicago. [3] She was born in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India [1] and is fluent in Hindi. [4]

She received her bachelor's degree in finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign [5] [6] During her undergraduate studies, she studied abroad at the University of Reading at the ICMA Business School in England. [6]

For graduate studies, she attended the European Institute of Design (Italian : Istituto Europeo di Design) in Milan, Italy where she received her master's degree in fashion design. [2] After completing her degree, she lived in Paris where she briefly studied French. [4]

Career

After a corporate career that began in the fashion industry in New York and transitioned to media in Los Angeles, Tulika focused her attention on writing. Her first two novels were published by Penguin Publishers. [1] [4] [2] [7]

Tulika has also written for various magazines including Harper's Bazaar , [8] Elle , Vogue , Grazia , [1] India Today [9] and Men's Health . [10]

Her debut novel Delhi Stopover was published in 2012 by Penguin Books India. [11] Ridhima Sud, in Vogue India , wrote that the work contains "enough fashion in it for it to be considered chic, and plenty of satire for its literary cred." [12] The sequel, Crashing B-Town was released the following year. [13] [2] Both titles became best sellers in India. [2] The novels explore the cultural changes in modern India and within the youth generation using a backdrop of the fashion and film industries in Delhi and Mumbai. [6]

Personal life

Mehotra married Mohit Chopra in a Hindu ceremony on 25 January 2015, and a ceremony later that year at Arlington County Courthouse in Arlington County, Virginia. [14]

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  3. ↑ Pisharoty, Sangeeta Barooah (30 October 2013). "Spice and substance". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 10 May 2022. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
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  5. ↑ "Author bio". Tulika Mehrotra personal website. Archived from the original on 10 April 2013. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
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  8. ↑ Author Tulika Mehrotra on Aaj Savere, Part 2. Doordarshan. Archived from the original on 3 May 2016. Retrieved 1 December 2016– via YouTube.
  9. ↑ Mehrotra, Tulika (8 November 2012). "True Value". India Today . Archived from the original on 24 May 2013. Retrieved 10 May 2013.
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