Rahul Bhattacharya

Rahul Bhattacharya (born 1979) is an Indian journalist and novelist. He currently resides in New Delhi. Rahul Bhattacharya was born in Bombay (Mumbai) in India, and lived briefly as a baby in Calcutta. His father was Bengali, though born and raised in the small towns of Uttar Pradesh, in the north, and interior Maharashtra, in the centre. His mother was Gujarati, born and raised in Bombay. From about the age of three until the age of nine he lived in a small town called Secunderabad[1][where?] – "the kind of town where houses might have wells in the backyard and goats at the gate."The family moved back to Bombay in 1988 where Bhattacharya studied in English. He graduated from college with a degree in mathematics, although he admits to have "little recollection of it