1. Kishwar Desai was born on 1 December 1956 and is an Indian author and columnist.
16 Facts About Kishwar Desai
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Kishwar Desai wrote her latest book in 2020, released on 28 December, titled, The Longest Kiss.
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Kishwar Desai grew up in Chandigarh, where her father was the head of Punjab Police, and graduated from Lady Shri Ram College in 1977, in Economics.
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Kishwar Desai started her career as a print journalist and worked as a political reporter with the Indian Express moving on to television and broadcast media after a while, where she worked for over two decades.
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Kishwar Desai worked as anchor, TV producer and head of a TV channel with some of the major Indian television networks.
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Kishwar Desai was the Vice President at Zee Telefilms.
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Kishwar Desai anchored Doordarshan's morning show, Good Morning Today, after which she took over as the CEO of Tara Punjabi TV channel, a part of Broadcast Worldwide, which was established by former STAR TV head, Rathikant Basu.
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Thereafter Kishwar Desai moved to Zee and NDTV, where she worked as a producer.
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Kishwar Desai has written for The Guardian and currently writes columns for The Week magazine, The Asian Age and The Tribune newspapers.
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Kishwar Desai's award-winning novel Witness the Night, was the first in the series featuring the feisty Indian middle-aged social worker-cum-crime investigator, Simran Singh.
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The judges of the Costa Award said "Kishwar Desai pulls off a remarkable trick, transplanting a country-house murder to modern-day India in a book that's not afraid to tackle serious themes".
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In Origins of Love, Kishwar Desai took a close look at surrogacy and adoption.
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Kishwar Desai's novels have been translated into many different languages, including Chinese, Spanish, French, etc.
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Kishwar Desai is working on taking the Partition Museum forward and on a new book on Indian cinema.
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Kishwar Desai released a book in 2020, called The Longest Kiss which is the story of Bombay Talkies founder and actress Devika Rani.
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Kishwar Desai is a Trustee with the Gandhi Statue Memorial Trust, in which she helped to set up the statue of Mahatma Gandhi at Westminster Square in London.