Kishwar Desai
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Kishwar Desai (
Early life and education
Born Kishwar Rosha on 1 December 1956 in
Career
She started her career as a print journalist and worked as a political reporter with the
Kishwar Desai has written four books. She currently writes columns for
Literary career
Desai's last novel The Sea of Innocence was the third in the series, featuring the feisty Indian middle-aged social worker-cum-crime investigator, Simran Singh.[citation needed]
Her award-winning novel Witness the Night, which was the first in the Simran Singh series, dealt with female foeticide. In a small town in the heart of India, a young girl, barely alive, is found in a sprawling house where thirteen people lie dead. Simran is now her only hope as she is charged with the murder of those dead. The judges of the
In Origins of Love,[9] Desai took a close look at surrogacy and adoption. Simran Singh is asked to examine the case of an abandoned baby at an IVF clinic and what follows is a maze of new age fertility rites, and surrogacy. The book received critical acclaim in UK, Australia and India.[citation needed] In her latest novel, The Sea of Innocence, Simran Singh is trying to find a British girl Liza Kay who has gone missing from the beaches of Goa. It was published in India, UK and Australia and received rave reviews. The Sea of Innocence had a reflection of the Nirbhaya gang-rape case in December 2012 in Delhi.[citation needed]
Desai's novels have been translated into many different languages, including Chinese, Spanish, French, etc.[citation needed]
Prior to writing fiction, Desai wrote a probing yet affectionate biography of Nargis and Sunil Dutt, two iconic Indian film stars, in Darlingji: The True Love Story of Nargis and Sunil Dutt. The book based on interviews with the Dutt family and friends, explored their lives in detail and tells the larger story of the evolution of Hindi cinema, and of a society and a nation in the throes of change. Desai has also written a play, Manto!, based on the life of the famous Urdu writer, Saadat Hasan Manto, which won the TAG Omega Award[10] for Best Play in 1999. Desai is now working on taking the Partition Museum forward and on a new book on Indian cinema. Desai also released a book in 2020, called The Longest Kiss which is the story of Bombay Talkies founder and actress Devika Rani.[11] [12]
Personal life
After her first marriage, she changed her name to Kishwar Ahluwalia
She is a Trustee with the Gandhi Statue Memorial Trust, in which she helped to set up the statue of
Works
- The Longest Kiss: The Life and Times of ISBN 9789389152470
- The Sea of Innocence. Simon & Schuster Limited, 2013. ISBN 9781471101427
- Origins of Love. Simon & Schuster Limited, 2013. ISBN 9781471111228
- Witness the Night, 2009; Simon & Schuster UK, 2012. ISBN 9781471101526
- Darlingji: The True Love Story of ISBN 9788172236977
References
- ^ "No Girlhoods" Archived 31 January 2013 at archive.today. Outlook India. 5 January 2011. Retrieved 2012-07-28.
- ^ "Two books on India in UK literary award shortlist". The Times of India. 18 November 2010. Retrieved 2012-07-28.[1]
- ^ "No Girlhoods". Outlook India. 5 January 2011. Retrieved 2012-07-28.
- ^ "Origins of Love". The Independent. 15 July 2012. Retrieved 2012-07-28
- ^ "Origins of Love". ABC Radio National. 11 July 2012. Retrieved 2012-07-28.
- ^ "The Queen and the Commoner". India Today. 25 October 2007. Retrieved 2012-07-28.
- ^ "Costa Books Awards 2010". The Telegraph. 5 January 2011. Retrieved 2012-07-28.
- ^ Lee-Potter, Emma (5 August 2020). "12 best Indian novels that everyone needs to read". The Independent. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
- ^ Mehta, A., Saraswat, S., & Paul, M. F. (2022). A critique of baby making supermarts: Surrogacy clinics in Kishwar Desai’s Origins of Love (2012). Research Journal in Advanced Humanities, 3(4), 115-128. https://doi.org/10.58256/rjah.v4i1.958
- ^ "Sponsors beg off, it's curtains for theatre". The Indian Express. 11 June 1999.
- ^ "'The Longest Kiss' sheds light on Devika Rani's life kept away from world". Malayala Manorama. 22 December 2020.
- ^ https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/reviews/story/kishwar-desai-chronicles-the-charmed-life-of-devika-rani-192918
- ^ "People: Kishwar Ahluwalia Profile". Business Today. 22 June 2000.
- ^ "Made for Each other". The Tribune. 8 August 2009.
- ^ "Lord Meghnad weds his lady love". The Times of India. 20 July 2004.
- ^ "Desai unravels economics of Pound: Khushwant Singh". The Tribune. 13 May 2006.