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Nilanjan P. Choudhury
Nilanjan P. Choudhury is a novelist, theatre-maker and science communicator. His most recent novel is Song of the Golden Sparrow: A Novel History of Free India, a brilliant satire on modern India, published to critical acclaim. His earlier novel Shillong Times is a coming-of-age story set against the ethnic conflict in Shillong in the 1980s. It has been widely recognized as an important new voice in the literature of the Northeast, and was nominated for the Sahitya Akademi Award (2023). His debut novel, a mythological thriller entitled Bali and the Ocean of Milk, was a best-seller. His subsequent writings include The Case of the Secretive Sister, a contemporary detective caper set in Bangalore. His plays on science history which include The Square Root of a Sonnet, The Trial of Abdus Salam and Invisible Particles, have been staged to wide acclaim across India, Europe and the USA. Nilanjan grew up in Shillong and studied at IIM, Ahmedabad and IIT Kanpur. He now lives in Bangalore with his family. He can be reached at www.nilanjan.net
