Kaveri Nambisan is a novelist from India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. She is also a surgeon who practices in rural India. Her career in medicine has been a strong influence in her fiction.

Life

Kaveri Nambisan studied medicine in St.John's Medical College, Bangalore and then studied surgery in England.

Today she works as surgeon and medical advisor at the Tata Coffee Hospital in Kodagu, Karnataka

Karnataka

Karnataka , the land of the Kannadigas, is a state in South West India. It was created on 1 November 1956, with the passing of the States Reorganisation Act and this day is annually celebrated as Karnataka Rajyotsava...

. She has created several programmes for child immunisation and family planning for the rural communities. She is vocal in her critiques of urban centred health planning.

Early career

Kaveri Nambisan began by writing under her maiden name Kaveri Bhatt for children's magazines. She wrote stories for the now defunct children's magazine Target. Under the name of Kaveri Bhatt she also published a novel, The Truth About Bharat, Almost. It is the story of a rebellious young medical student who begins a cross-country road trip on his motorcycle and one of the few campus novels in Indian Writing in English. The book went out of print and was recently re-released.

Books

• The Truth About Bharat, Almost
• The Scent of Pepper
• Mango-coloured fish
• On Wings of Butterflies
• The Hills of Angheri