Rahul Bhattacharya is the author, most recently, of Railsong, a novel about a woman forging a life for herself in twentieth-century India. His novel The Sly Company of People Who Care won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Hindu Literary Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man Asian and the Commonwealth prizes. Pundits from Pakistan, his first book, was a Wisden Cricketer top ten cricket book of all time. He was born in Bombay and lives in Delhi.


