Rohit Manchanda

Rohit Manchanda grew up in the coalfields of what is now Jharkhand, India, and took a doctorate at Oxford. He is a professor at IIT Bombay, researching computational neurophysiology. His first novel, In the Light of the Black Sun, about a boy whose father manages a coal mine, received a Betty Trask Award in 1995; it was reissued by Fourth Estate India in 2024 as A Speck of Coal Dust. His second novel, A Place in Mind, won a Tibor Jones South Asia Prize, and The Enclave followed in 2024. He has also written a history of IIT Bombay.

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