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Dec 01, 1956 Ambala, Haryana, India 67 years old
Indian writer
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About Kishwar Desai
- Kishwar Desai (née Rosha) (born 1 December 1956) is an Indian author and columnist.
- She is also the Chair of The Arts And Cultural Heritage Trust (TAACHT) which has just set up the world's first Partition Museum at Town Hall, Amritsar, Punjab, India.
- This is a not-for-profit Trust, an NGO, that has created the Museum through donations from people—Partition survivors and their families, as well as corporates and donors.
- The Museum is only five minutes away from the Golden Temple and Jallianwala Bagh.
- The building was recently completed and inaugurated by the Chief Minister of Punjab, Captain Amarinder Singh on Partition Remembrance Day, 17 August 2017. She is also 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.
- While the government allotted the space, the charity, chaired by Lord Meghnad Desai, had to raise the money for it.
- The statue was inaugurated by the then Prime Minister David Cameron and the Finance Minister of India, Arun Jaitley, in 2015.
- Later in 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi also paid his respects at the Gandhi Statue on his visit to the UK, accompanied by the members of the Gandhi Statue Memorial Trust and Prime Minister Cameron. As a novelist, her last novel The Sea of Innocence was published in 2014 in India as well as in UK and Australia, and was widely discussed ss it dealt with the difficult issue of gang rape .
- Her first novel, Witness the Night, won the Costa Book Award in 2010 for Best First Novel and has been translated into over 25 languages.
- It was also shortlisted for the Author's Club First Novel Award and longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize.
- Her critically acclaimed novel, Origins of Love, was published in June 2012.
- Desai also has a biography, Darlingji: The True Love Story of Nargis and Sunil Dutt, to her credit.
