Nilanjana S Roy

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Nilanjana S. Roy was a contributing opinion writer for The International New York Times in 2013-14. Ms. Roy is an Indian author who lives in New Delhi.

Her novel "The Wildings" was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize and the Shakti Bhatt First Book Award in India.

She is at work on a sequel, “The Hundred Names of Darkness,” and a collection of essays on the reading life, “How to Read in Indian.”

She also edited a 2005 anthology of food writing, “A Matter of Taste,” published by Penguin India.

For more than 15 years, Ms. Roy wrote a column on the reading life for the Business Standard daily newspaper.

She has also written on gender for The International Herald Tribune (now The International New York Times) and The Telegraph, a daily newspaper based in Kolkata, India.

Ms. Roy has been the chief editor at the Tranquebar Press (part of the publisher Westland Limited) and founded Katakana, a literary blog.

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