Amandeep Sandhu
Rourkela/India — Literature, Solitude fellow 2013–2015
Amandeep Singh Sandhu was born in Rourkela, India, in 1973. He studied English literature at the University of Hyderabad, India. He is currently taking time off from his third novel The Memory Maker to travel and write about India Punjab in the current times – 25 years after the separatist guns fell silent. Besides novels, he writes reviews in The Hindu, Asian Age, The Indian Express, Businessworld, and political commentary and reportage on Punjab in Tehelka, Caravan Magazine, and Scroll.in.