Amita Kanekar

Amita Kanekar is a Goa-based writer and architectural historian, whose well-received debut novel A Spoke in the Wheel was published by Harper Collins Publishers and later again by Navayana.

Kanekar's second book was a guidebook to Portuguese sea fort architecture of the Deccan, while her third was another novel, Fear of Lions, published by Hachette in 2019.

 She also writes essays and newspaper columns on architecture, history, and politics, and also teaches architectural history and theory at the Goa College of Architecture.