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Kanishk Tharoor Kanishk Tharoor (34 years old) is an Indian writer based in New York City. His journalism, criticism, and short stories have appeared in international and Indian publications. His collection of stories, Swimmer Among the Stars is in the tradition of Arabian Nights, Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, Angela Carter and other ancient and modern masters of the fable.[1] He writes for two Indian newspapers and is also preparing for the second season of BBC Radio’s Museum of Lost Objects.[6] [1] Early Life He is the son of Congress MP & author Shashi Tharoor and Tilottama Mukherji who is a professor of literature at New York University.[2] He was born in Singapore with his twin brother Ishaan Tharoor who now works for The Washington Post. Kanishk is the younger of the two. Kanishk spent some time in Geneva as a toddler and later on he went to pre-school in Kolkata.[3] He studied at Yale, Columbia where he had graduated in magna cum laude and phi beta kappa with BAs in History and literature. At New York University he was a “Writer at Public Schools”. [9] Personal Life Kanishk Tharoor married poet Amanda Calderon on 15th August 2015. The wedding took place at Grace Church in Manhattan.[4] Kanishk and his twin brother loves to play football and their favorite team is Arsenal. Football has helped him to know a lot about culture and society. He loves to cook and host dinner party for friends, and according to him it is one of the most pleasurable activities in life. He also likes to go on interesting long walks and running. This helps him to think a lot.[5] He likes many writers but he has a particular fondness for Jose Saramango, Italo Calvino, Toni Morrison and Amitav Ghosh.[2] He loves to travel and comes to India on short intervals. He is connected to his family through WhatsApp groups and Email chains.[5] [4] Career Kanishk is an author, a journalist and also a teacher. He writes short stories and novels. His stories are not set in a specific place or time. They cover subjects as diverse as dying languages, towns on the brink of invasion, diplomats in space, etc. He is born in a family which has a famous writer and this increases the expectations from him.[6] On the debut of his collection of short stories “A Swimmer among the stars”, he was appreciated a lot by the media and made him famous among the audience as a writer that you must read. The first story in the collection (Elephant at Sea) was written when he was 18 years old. The stories were written over a period of 19 years but the bulk of them were written over a period of three to four years. The idea for the title of the stories came from a story written by David Davidar. Among his works there is “A Tale of Teahouse” which was published in the Virginia Quarterly Review’s summer 2008 issue. It was written when Kanishk was around 22 or 23 years old. When he was young his brother showed him a Soviet film called the The Fall of Otrar about a Central Asian city that is under siege. The film had nothing to do with the Teahouse but this created an impact in his mind and helped him write it. “A Tale of Teahouse” was awarded the best prize for the work of fiction.[7] Among his other published works are “Elephant at Sea”, “The Loss of Muzaffar”, “The Fall of an eyelash” and “Tiger Haunting”.[8] Kanishk Tharoor is a renowned journalist and has worked for many good and reputed news papers. His pieces of politics and culture have appeared in, The New York Times, Guardian, The Nation, The National, The Hindu, Caravan, New Yorker, Los Angeles Review of Books, Paris Review, Al Jazeera America, Roads & Kingdoms, Foreign Policy, Cairo Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Guernica. He writes the weekly “Far & Near” column for the Hindustan Times, and the monthly “Cosmopolis” column for The Hindu Business Line. He was an associate editor at the online politics and culture magazine openDemocracy.net, a researcher and interviewer for the Guantanamo Bay Oral History Project at Columbia University, and the Global Soccer editor at Roads & Kingdoms. Some of the recent articles by him are “Epic Fails: ‘Outlaw King’ and Netﬂix’s Nationalism Problem” in The Nation, 29 Nov 2018. “New-age colonialism” in Cosmopolis column in the Hindustan Times, 28 December, 2018. “Trespassers to be killed” Cosmopolis column in the Hindu Business Line, 28 November, 2018. “How easy it is to love Iceland” Essay in Conde Nast Traveller India, 26 December, 2018. [9][10] He is the presenter of “Museum of Lost Objects,” a BBC radio series on cultural heritage and public memory. Previous seasons have visited Iraq and Syria, India and Pakistan. His appearances on radio and TV include BBC’s Today programme, BBC News, BBC Radio Scotland and the Colbert Report. Kanishk is an English teacher and takes a 6-Week Advanced Fiction Workshop for $495. This workshop focuses on refining and refreshing the work in progress for writers or people who had prior experience of writing. This course helps people tighten their technical skills and the ability to think like a writer, and identifying what makes narrative voice authoritative.[11] Awards & Recognition Swimmer Among the Stars This book is a collection of short stories published by Alpeh Book Company. It has won the Tata Literature Live First book award for fiction. It was also shortlisted for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Award[8] Tale of the Teahouse It has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review’s summer 2008 issue. It won the Emily C. Balch prize. It was nominated for a National Magazine Award US 2009.[8] The Loss of Muzaffar It won a prize in The Atlantic magazine’s nation-wide student writing contest and won the best fiction is Spires Inter-collegiate writing contest and was later on published in First Proof, a Penguin anthology of new fiction from India.[8] Elephant at Sea It appears in the anthology A Clutch of Indian Masterpieces and in Huffington Post India.[8] References:- 1) https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kanishk-tharoor/a5ec0f63-173a-4246-425b-08d5dd18a1c0 2)  https://www.hindustantimes.com/we-were-surrounded-by-books-everywhere-in-the-house-says-author-kanishk-tharoor/story-Nz9YkNUGqcsw6CmKwOZw1L.html 3) https://www.vogue.in/content/meet-literary-hotshots-and-squad-of-two-ishaan-and-kanishk-tharoor/amp/ 4)  https://www.ibtimes.co.in/shashi-tharoors-son-kanishk-marries-amanda-calderon-new-york-photos-643179 5) https://www.firstpost.com/living/my-mother-influenced-my-writing-kanishk-tharoor-on-his-literary-household-reading-football-3175310.html 6)  https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/interview-kanishk-tharoor/ 7) https://www.mid-day.com/articles/shashi-tharoors-son-kanishk-reveals-why-hes-destined-to-write/16826166 8)  https://kanishktharoor.wordpress.com/fiction-morsels/ 9) https://kanishktharoor.wordpress.com/about-2/ 10)  https://kanishktharoor.wordpress.com/ 11) https://catapult.co/classes/6-week-advanced-fiction-workshop-writing-the-other-162-2019-02-21?tab=about