Firdaus Kanga Explained

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Birth Date:	1960
Birth Place:	Mumbai
Occupation:	Author, Journalist and, Actor.

Firdaus Kanga, born in Mumbai 1960 to a Parsi Family, Kanga is an Indian writer, journalist and actor who currently lives in London. He has written a novel Trying to Grow a semi-autobiographical novel set in India and a travel book ''Heaven on Wheels'', which shares about his experiences in United Kingdom where he met Stephen Hawking. A film was based on his novel Trying to Grow with the name of Sixth Happiness, where he himself played the role of a screenwriter and the lead character.

Kanga was born with a rare disease called Osteogenesis imperfecta or brittle bones disease.^{[1] [2]}

External links

• • Article by Kanga on the BBC website
• Sixth Happiness -- a BBC-BFI film that won the EMMA award
• Article about Kanga and his film on the website for The Independent newspaper
• Trying to Grow by Kanga -- republished in November 2008 by Penguin India
• New York Times review of Kanga's film Sixth Happiness
• Kanga in a New York Times review of the history of homosexuality in Indian literary history

Notes and References

1. Web site: Growing up Parsi and gay in Bombay . 2024-03-21 . DNA India . en.
2. Web site: Firdaus Kanga . 2023-01-21 . veethi.com.