Kamala Markandaya
Kamala Markandaya was a British Indian novelist.
Born in Mysore, India to an upper-middle-class Brahmin family, Markandaya studied at Madras University before working as a journalist. When India declared independence from Britain in 1947, Markandaya moved to London, England.
Markandaya's first novel, Nectar In A Sieve (1954), received critical acclaim and became a bestseller, earning the author a place among the prominent Indian writers of her time. She published ten other novels, including...
