| Ruchir Joshi | |
| Birth Place: | Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Nationality: | Indian |
| Genre: | Historical fiction |
| Notableworks: | The Last Jet Engine Laugh |
Ruchir Joshi is an Indian writer, a filmmaker and a columnist for The Telegraph, India Today as well as other publications. He is best known for his debut novel 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.[1]
Ruchir Joshi is the son of writer and dramatist Shivkumar Joshi. Born in 1960, he was brought up in Kolkata. He was educated at Mayo College, Ajmer.[2] [3] He went to the United States of America in 1979, to study in an undergraduate college in Vermont.[4] He moved to New Delhi in 1997 and stayed there till 2007. Since then he has been shuttling between London and Delhi.[5] [6]
Apart from writing regular columns in newspapers and magazines, Joshi made a film on Bauls in 1992. It is called Egaro Mile (Eleven Miles).[7] 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.[8] He wrote a piece called Tracing Puppa which was published in Granta 109 in a series of recollections regarding fathers.