More than a hundred years before Jaishree Misra, 1901, Michael White wrote a fictional biography of the queen entitled Lachmi Bai, The Rani of Jhansi.!
by Nandini Muralidharan
Indian writing in English has won a lot of critical acclaim in the literary world, and Indian authors have really made it big with some fantastic masterpieces.
Jaishree Misra, is one Indian author, who took the literary world by storm with her debut novel “Ancient Promises”. Misra was born in a Malayali family, in New Delhi and has spent her childhood in New Delhi, Bangalore and a part of it in England.
Jaishree Misra, the London based mostly Indian author writes in English concerning Indian society, traditions and cultures.
She has worked in the fields of Special Education, Social Services, as a journalist for BBC, and also in the British Board of film classification in London. Misra’s first novel Ancient Promises really made its mark in the world of literature.
Her subsequent works “Accidents like love and marriage” and “Afterwards” too had the themes of love and loss, which her first novel had highlighted. But these are different and enjoyable in their own right.
Jaishree Misra signed a three book deal with Avon, the commercial fiction imprint of Harper Collins in the UK.