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Name
  
Sindhu Rajasekaran

Role
  
Novelist


Parents
  
Gnana Rajasekaran

Books
  
Kaleidoscopic Reflections

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Grandparents
  
Sharadambal, Gnanaprakasam

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Sindhu Rajasekaran is an Indian novelist, poet, short-story writer, film producer and screenwriter. Her debut novel Kaleidoscopic Reflections was longlisted for the Crossword Book Award in 2011, while her prose and poetry have appeared in internationally acclaimed literary magazines. She co-founded an independent film production company, Camphor Cinema, and produced the Indo-British feature film Ramanujan, based on the life and times of the mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan, which is expected to release in 2014. Sindhu was one among the youngest writers invited to participate and speak at the Hyderabad Literary Festival in 2013.

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Early life and education

Sindhu was born in Madras to well known IAS officer and Film Director Gnana Rajasekaran and Sakunthala Rajasekaran. She grew up in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Trained as an Electronics and Communications Engineer at Anna University, Sindhu received a master's degree in English from the University of Edinburgh.

Literary works

Sindhu’s debut novel Kaleidoscopic Reflections was longlisted for the Crossword Book Award in 2011. The novel tells the tale of a Tamil family, spanning five generations, and how their destiny is inextricably linked to the fate India - the land of contradictions.

Sindhu’s short story The Sacred Cow appeared in the internationally acclaimed Asia Literary Review in 2012.

Her poems Meghdooth and Let Me Molest You have been published by Muse India as part of an anthology of poetry in 2012, and So I Let It Be and Mermaid were published in The Dance of The Peacock by Hidden Brook Press, Canada in 2013.

Theatre and Film

Sindhu co-wrote and acted in a play titled The Tiara Gynaelogues, staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2011.

With Ramanujan Sindhu forayed into the world of screenwriting and film production; she is the Assistant Scriptwriter of the film and also the Producer of the film. She set up the production house, Camphor Cinema, with her husband in 2012.

References

Sindhu Rajasekaran Wikipedia