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Nandita Puri
Author| Speaker
Who am I
Nandita C Puri was born in Kolkata and spent her early childhood in boarding school in the
former French colony of Chandernagore. She studied in Kolkata and Bombay, majoring in
English Literature and worked as a writer and journalist with several newspapapers like The
Telegraph, The Statesman,The Times Of India, The Reader’s Digest and others.
For nearly a decade she wrote one of the most popular weekly film column on cinema for
Mid Day (Potpuri) and India’s largest circulated daily, Dainik Bhaskar (Khaas Chehre).
She has also worked as a broadcast journalist for All India Radio and Radio Network (with
former BBC Chief Mark Tully) in Calcutta. She has written for television and feature films,
having penned a typical Bollywood commercial film called Mera Dil Leke Dekho (2006) apart
from a number of documentaries and shorts films.
However, her collection of short stories, Nine On Nine (published by Rupa & Co.in 2005) has
been critically acclaimed and well received. It has gone into its more than 30th edition and
has also been translated in German at the 2006 Frankfurt Book Fair. Besides one of the
stories has been included in the Sahetya Akademi Anthology of Indian writers.
Filmmaker, Mike Nichols (Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf, Graduate, Catch 22) wrote about
Nine On Nine, “Nine On Nine is fascinating because it is funny and full of life, the writing is a
mixture of compassion and toughness, it is really political writing in the highest sense. The
closest I can compare this book is to Edith Wharton’s House Of Mirth.”
Masala Chai, is another of her screenplays in the pipeline based on a story from the
collection.
In 2010 Nandita published the biography, Unlikely Hero: Om Puri, (Roli Books) which has
been on the best sellers’ list and translated in several Indian languages including, Hindi,
Malayalam, Punjabi and Marathi.
The following year Nandita published her debut novel, Two Worlds (Rupa & Co), a historical
romance spanning two centuries and several continents. The book was launched at the
Jaipur Lit Fest in the presence of Orhan Pahmuk. It was on the best sellers’ list for several weeks.
Nandita has been working and researching on the sensitive subject of “International child trafficking” and “Inter country adoption” since more than two years now through the personal story of Jennifer Haynes. The book Jennifer’s Story, is being published by Harper Collins. She has also completed the screenplay, Homeless / Jenny Hoover (working title) based on her book Jennifer’s Story.
She is a Ted X Speaker, Script Evaluator at NFDC (National Film Development
Corporation) and an ex member of script committee of CFSI (Children’s Film Society of
India). She is also a Chairperson of Om Puri Foundation.
Who am I
Nandita C Puri was born in Kolkata and spent her early childhood in boarding school in the
former French colony of Chandernagore. She studied in Kolkata and Bombay, majoring in
English Literature and worked as a writer and journalist with several newspapapers like The
Telegraph, The Statesman,The Times Of India, The Reader’s Digest and others.
For nearly a decade she wrote one of the most popular weekly film column on cinema for
Mid Day (Potpuri) and India’s largest circulated daily, Dainik Bhaskar (Khaas Chehre).
She has also worked as a broadcast journalist for All India Radio and Radio Network (with
former BBC Chief Mark Tully) in Calcutta. She has written for television and feature films,
having penned a typical Bollywood commercial film called Mera Dil Leke Dekho (2006) apart
from a number of documentaries and shorts films.
However, her collection of short stories, Nine On Nine (published by Rupa & Co.in 2005) has
been critically acclaimed and well received. It has gone into its more than 30th edition and
has also been translated in German at the 2006 Frankfurt Book Fair. Besides one of the
stories has been included in the Sahetya Akademi Anthology of Indian writers.
Filmmaker, Mike Nichols (Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf, Graduate, Catch 22) wrote about
Nine On Nine, “Nine On Nine is fascinating because it is funny and full of life, the writing is a
mixture of compassion and toughness, it is really political writing in the highest sense. The
closest I can compare this book is to Edith Wharton’s House Of Mirth.”
Masala Chai, is another of her screenplays in the pipeline based on a story from the
collection.
In 2010 Nandita published the biography, Unlikely Hero: Om Puri, (Roli Books) which has
been on the best sellers’ list and translated in several Indian languages including, Hindi,
Malayalam, Punjabi and Marathi.
The following year Nandita published her debut novel, Two Worlds (Rupa & Co), a historical
romance spanning two centuries and several continents. The book was launched at the
Jaipur Lit Fest in the presence of Orhan Pahmuk. It was on the best sellers’ list for several weeks.
Nandita has been working and researching on the sensitive subject of “International child trafficking” and “Inter country adoption” since more than two years now through the personal story of Jennifer Haynes. The book Jennifer’s Story, is being published by Harper Collins. She has also completed the screenplay, Homeless / Jenny Hoover (working title) based on her book Jennifer’s Story.
She is a Ted X Speaker, Script Evaluator at NFDC (National Film Development
Corporation) and an ex member of script committee of CFSI (Children’s Film Society of
India). She is also a Chairperson of Om Puri Foundation.
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