Ruchir Joshi is an

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writer, a filmmaker and a columnist for ''

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'', ''

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'' as well as other publications. He is best known for his

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titled ''The Last Jet-Engine Laugh'' (2001). He is also the editor of India's first anthology of contemporary erotica ''Electric Feather: The Tranquebar Book of Erotic Stories'', published by Tranquebar Press/Westland. He has two sons, aged sixteen and twelve.

Life

Ruchir Joshi is the son of writer and dramatist Shivkumar Joshi. Born in 1960, he was brought up in

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. He was educated at

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, Ajmer. He went to the United States of America in 1979, to study in an undergraduate college in

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. He moved to New Delhi in 1997 and stayed there till 2007. Since then he has been shuttling between

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and

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Work

Apart from writing regular columns in newspapers and magazines, Joshi made a film on

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in 1992. It is called ''Egaro Mile (Eleven Miles)''. Early in his life, when he was just out of school, he decided to take up acting and performed in an English play called ''You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown'' directed by Zarin Chaudhuri. He wrote a piece called ''Tracing Puppa'' which was published in

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''109'' in a series of recollections regarding fathers.

Bibliography

*''The Last Jet Engine Laugh'' (2001) *''Electric Feather: The Tranquebar Book of Erotic Stories (2009) *''Poriborton: An Election Diary'' (2011)

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