Parvati Sharma

Parvati Sharma’s debut The Dead Camel and Other Stories of Love earned her a cult following for its depictions of love and sexuality in urban India, and its “lightness [and] lucidity”. She has also written a novella, Close to Home, and two books for children, The Story of Babur and Rattu & Poorie’s Adventures in History: 1857. Her earlier biography, Jahangir: An Intimate Portrait of a Great Mughal (Juggernaut, 2018), was acclaimed as an “audacious, conversational history… [that] stands out”, and for its “psychologically penetrating portrayal”. Sharma lives in New Delhi, where she has studied English literature and Indian history, and worked as a travel writer, editor and journalist.