The Escapists of J. Mullick Road
Usha Ananda Krishna with Renuka Chatterjee
Usha Ananda Krishna
Bio
Usha Ananda Krishna graduated from the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi nd worked as an architect in Bangalore and Kolkata. In 1980 she began writing advertising copy, interspersing the two careers for many years. Her first novel A Turbulent Passage was published in 1995, followed in 2009 by Fallout, a family drama. The Escapists of J Mullick Road,, set in Kolkata and featuring an architect and a Bengali babu as protagonists was published in 2018. She is working on her fourth novel. Her interests are architecture, reading and modern art.
Renuka Chatterjee
Bio
Renuka Chatterjee started out as a journalist with the Times of India in the late ‘80s, and helped launch The Saturday Times, the country’s first colour weekend supplement. She switched tracks to enter publishing in 1992 as Associate Editor with Penguin Books, and publishing has been her home ever since. After Penguin, she has been editor-in-chief of HarperCollins India and subsequently, Roli Books and Westland Ltd. In 2013 she started her own literary agency, The Boxwallah, for promoting quality fiction and non-fiction. She is currently Vice-President, Publishing, with Speaking Tiger Publishing.