Kalpana Swaminathan has been writing ever since she learned to hold a pen. Her training as a pediatric surgeon in Grant Medical College, Bombay, has made her look at the human body as an endless storybook. She likes to explore ideas, histories and myths through the factual evidence of the body. Her city, Bombay, is full of opportunities for time travel. And if occasionally daunted by the here and now, she wisely leaves it to her doughty detective L.R. [Last Resort] Lalli to do the investigating—as she has, through eight novels. Kalpana’s anthology of short stories Venus Crossing won the Crossword Fiction Award in 2009.
