Shashi Warrier

Shashi Warrier was born in 1959, and, after completing a master’s degree in economics, tried his hand at many professions that had nothing to do with economics. He progressed in fits and starts through journalism, consulting, computer software, project management and so on, and then settled down to write. He likes yoga, motorcycles, Hindustani music and good thrillers, and has been learning to cook for a decade or more with little success. He teaches college students how to get their thoughts in order, and is a newspaper columnist and book reviewer. His most memorable achievement has been a solo forty-day 11,000-km motorbike ride around India.

He has written fairy tales, thrillers, literary fiction, satires, and a romance. His ambition is to write a really outstanding fairy tale, but for the time being he's working on a travelogue through his own mind.

He lives in Mangalore, close to a beach, with his painter-writer wife Prita, and their dog Squark.