Ruchir Joshi
Ruchir Joshi | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1960 (age 65–66) |
| Occupation | Writer |
| 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) and Great Eastern Hotel (2025), for which he won the Crossword Book Award for Fiction.[1] 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.
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 in Ajmer, Rajasthan.[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 remained there until 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.[9]
Bibliography
- The Last Jet Engine Laugh (2001)
- Electric Feather: The Tranquebar Book of Erotic Stories (editor) (2009)
- Poriborton: An Election Diary (2011)
- Great Eastern Hotel (2025)
See also
References
- ^ https://scroll.in/article/1089002/crossword-book-awards-2025-manu-pillai-ruchir-joshi-j-devika-among-winners
- ^ Datta, Kanika (20 March 2015). "Lunch with BS: Vir Sanghvi". Business Standard India.
- ^ "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) - ^ "Bricks must fall".
- ^ Sawhney, Hirsh (2007). Delhi Noir. Akashic books. ISBN 9781933354781.
- ^ Robyn Davidson Davidson (11 November 2009). The Best Australian Essays 2009: Easyread Comfort Edition. ReadHowYouWant.com. p. 544. ISBN 978-1-4587-4229-2.
- ^ "Ruchir Joshi-profile". The traveling archive. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Ruchir Joshi-profile". Granta. Retrieved 26 January 2012.