Search results
Vikram Chandra was born in 1961 in New Delhi. He studied Film at Columbia University in New York and Creative Writing at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Houston, Texas. He teaches Creative Writing and works as a journalist and as an independent software engineer and consultant. His first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain (1995 ...
Vikram Chandra is a wonderful novelist and apparently knows his way around an algorithm, too. His new book is an unexpected tour de force, different from anything he has done before… its ambition: to look deeply, and with great subtlety, into the connections and tensions between the worlds – the cultures – of technology and art.
Vikram Chandra's second book, a collection of short stories. In a waterfront bar in Bombay, an enigmatic civil servant tells stories to a group of friends. In "Dharma," an old soldier returns home to find that his house is haunted by the spirit of a small child; in "Shakti," two great ladies engage in ruthless drawing-room warfare; in "Kama," a policeman investigating a murder journeys into the mysteries of his own heart…
Jan 9, 2007 · Vikram Chandra. HarperCollins, Jan 9, 2007 - Fiction - 928 pages. Seven years in the making, Sacred Games is an epic of exceptional richness and power. Vikram Chandra's novel draws the reader deep into the life of Inspector Sartaj Singh—and into the criminal underworld of Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India.
We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us.
Jan 1, 1995 · Vikram Chandra. 3.79. 2,701 ratings256 reviews. Combining Indian myths, epic history, and the story of three college kids in search of America, a narrative includes the monkey's story of an Indian poet and warrior and an American road novel of college students driving cross-country. Genres Fiction India Fantasy Magical Realism Indian Literature ...
Jul 21, 2018 · A look back at Vikram Chandra’s ‘Sacred Games’. When he was writing his 1997 collection of stories Love and Longing in Bombay , Vikram Chandra ventured into the world of crime and the police ...
