Nirupama Subramanian

Nirupama Subramanian is an award-winning journalist who usually writes on India and its neighborhood. With this book, she returns to Tamil Nadu, where she was a reporter with India Today in the 1990s and a regular at the shiny new Saravana Bhavan in Chennai, drawn by its excellent potato bonds, curd rice, and filter coffee. Presently a national editor of the Indian Express heading its Mumbai edition, she has also worked in Islamabad, Colombo, Delhi, and Chandigarh.