Ruchir Joshi
Born1960 (age 62–63)
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
OccupationWriter
NationalityIndian
GenreHistorical fiction
Notable worksThe 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]

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]

Bibliography

  • The Last Jet Engine Laugh (2001)
  • Electric Feather: The Tranquebar Book of Erotic Stories (editor) (2009)
  • Poriborton: An Election Diary (2011)

See also

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.
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