Upamanyu Chatterjee

Upamanyu Chatterjee was born in 1959 in Patna, India. He joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1983 and at present works as a civil servant in Bombay. He writes novels on the side–when no one is looking, as it were. His family comprises one wife and two daughters. He enjoys diverse solitary occupations.
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