About the author
"Devapriya Roy is the author of three novels, The Vague Woman’s Handbook (2011), The Weight Loss Club (2013) and Friends from College (2019), a version of which was serialised in The Telegraph from May 2018 to March 2019 as The Romantics of College Street.
In 2015, she published The Heat and Dust Project, co-written with Saurav Jha, a travel-memoir based on their travels around India on a very very tight budget, which debuted at no.1 on the Hindustan Times-AC Nielsen list. Over 2016 and 2017, she collaborated with the artist Priya Kuriyan to create Indira (2018), the acclaimed graphic biography of Indira Gandhi.
An alumna of Presidency College and Jawaharlal Nehru University, she lives in Delhi with her husband, writer Saurav Jha, and often pines for College Street, Calcutta."
