Bio
Kanishk Tharoor ‘s first book, Swimmer Among the Stars: Stories, was published by Aleph in 2016, and will be published in the US and UK in spring 2017. The book received the Tata Lit Live First Book Award for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize. He is the presenter of “Museum of Lost Objects,” a BBC radio series on the destruction of cultural heritage in West Asia. His pieces on politics and culture have appeared widely, including in the New York Times, Guardian, and The National. He is a columnist for the Hindustan Times and The Hindu Business Line.