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Devapriya Roy

Devapriya Roy
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Nationality Indian
Occupation Author

Devapriya Roy is a Delhi-based author.

Roy began her career with The Vague Woman’s Handbook, a quirky novel that was published by HarperCollins in March 2011 and subsequently appeared on the India Today Bestseller List.

Her second book was The Weight Loss Club: The Curious Experiments of Nancy Housing Cooperative, yet another quirky novel published by Rupa & Co. in July 2013.

Her most successful book is The Heat and Dust Project (along with husband Saurav Jha), that chronicles the story of travelling through India on local buses “on a very very tight budget” which debuted at no.1 on the Hindustan Times-AC Nielsen list and also got excellent reviews.The Heat and Dust Project is also a first-of-its-kind dynamic book as the couple used Facebook to document their journey even as it was underway.

A teaser for the sequel of The Heat and Dust Project, called Man. Woman. Road., was published in Indian Express recently.

Roy is an alumnus of Presidency College, Kolkata, and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, from where she obtained a PhD on Bharata’s Natyashastra. She completed her PhD under the supervision of award-winning poet and playwright H.S. Shivaprakash, and her co-supervisor was Prof Katia Legeret of the University of Paris VIII.


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