X
Follow us on
Text Size  A-- A--A

   Author Details

Author Name: Raj Kamal Jha


Jha was born in Bihar and was raised in Kolkata, West Bengal, where he went to school at St. Joseph's College. He then attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur where he did his bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering, (but perhaps more significantly, had his first brush with journalism as the editor of the campus magazine, Alankar, where his first short fiction appeared). After graduating from IIT, he went to the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of Southern California, where he received his M.A. in 1990. Jha was an Assistant Editor (News) at The Statesman in Kolkata, a Senior Associate Editor at India Today, New Delhi, and since 1996 has been with The Indian Express first as Deputy Editor and then as Executive Editor. He is now Managing Editor. He lives in New Delhi.

     Books By Author :: Raj Kamal Jha

   
Fireproof
 -by Raj Kamal Jha

It’s the last night of February 2002. A helpless nation watches as the city of Ahmedabad in India is rocked by religious ... Read More

   
She Will Build Him a City
 -by Raj Kamal Jha

As night falls in Delhi a mother spins tales from her past for her sleeping daughter. Her now grown-up child is a puzzle with a... Read More

   
The Blue Bedspread
 -by Raj Kamal Jha

In a house on a Calcutta street, lit by the half-light of a yellow street lamp, lies a baby, one day old, wrapped in its hospit... Read More



Author in Focus

A little about me: I always knew I wanted to work with books somehow, so I studied English at university before working in a bookshop, a literary ag Read More...

Book of the Week

MOST POPULAR STORIES FROM PANCHATANTRA

by: PENELOPE FITZGERALD

 
Leading Online Library in Chennai © bookandborrow.com. All Rights Reserved.