Kanishk Tharoor
Kanishk Tharoor is the author of Swimmer Among the Stars: Stories, a collection of short fiction. His journalism and criticism have appeared in international and Indian publications. His short fiction was nominated for a National Magazine Award in the U.S. He writes the “Cosmopolis” column for The Hindu Business Line’s BLINK magazine. He is currently at work on a radio series to be aired on BBC Radio in the spring of 2016, and on a novel. He studied at Yale, where he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with BAs in History and Literature; at Columbia, where he was a FLAS fellow in Persian and South Asian studies; and at New York University, where he had a fellowship in the Creative Writing Programme. He lives in New York City.
2 Books Written
An interview with the last speaker of a language. A chronicle of the final seven days of a town that is about to be razed to the ground by an invading army. The lonely voyage of an elephant from Kerala to a princess’s palace in Morocco. A fabled cook who flavours his food with precious stones. A coterie of international diplomats trapped in near-Earth orbit. These, and the other stories can be found in this collection.
കനിഷ്ക് തരൂരിന്റെ ആദ്യകഥാസമാഹാരമായ Swimmer Among the Stars-ലെ ശ്രദ്ധേയമായ ഒരു ഡസൻ കഥകളിലൊന്നാണ് ഐക്യരാഷ്ട്രസഭ ബഹിരാകാശത്ത്. കടലിൽ ആന എന്ന കഥ, നമ്മൾ മലയാളികൾക്ക് സവിശേഷമായൊരു വികാരം പകരുന്നതാവും.