Kalpish Ratna

About The Author

Kalpana Swaminathan and Ishrat Syed are surgeons who write together as Kalpish Ratna, an almost anagram of their first names. Melding Farsi and Sanskrit, it means the pleasures of imagination.

 

Kalpish Ratna have written novels, short stories, nonfiction and essays over the last three decades. Their acclaimed writings include The Quarantine Papers, shortlisted for the Crossword Fiction Award in 2010; The Nalanda Chronicles; the short story collection Synapse. Uncertain Life & Sure Death, Once Upon A Hill and Room 000 look at Bombay with new eyes. Fat, The Secret Life of Zika Virus,A Crown of Thorns, and Gastronama examine the entanglements between our bodies, disease and the environment.  Kalpish Ratna have also written stories for children: Doctor Wrasse of Crystal Rock, Nyagrodha, and A Pandemonium in Pakshila.

 

For more about their work, visit www.kalpishratna.com

Books by Kalpish Ratna

Bahadur Shah of Gujarat

A King in Search of a Kingdom

Time has forgotten Bahadur Khan. History has condemned him as a drunken wastrel and overlooked his military genius. Part man, part horse; part Hindu, part Muslim; part Rajput, part Gujarati; what was he like, really, this rebellious young man? A warrior born, why did he refuse the most vital ba...

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