Raj Kamal Jha

Who is Raj Kamal Jha?

Raj Kamal Jha is a daily newspaper editor and an internationally acclaimed novelist whose works inhabit the surreal, often dark and violent, space between fiction and fact to explore contemporary India. He lives in Gurgaon.

Jha was born in Bhagalpur, Bihar, and was raised in Calcutta, West Bengal, where he went to school at St. Joseph's College. He then attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, where he got his Bachelor of Technology with Honors in Mechanical Engineering. He was the editor of the campus magazine Alankar in his third and fourth years at IIT, where his first writing and editing skills got honed. After graduating from IIT in June 1988, he received a tuition waiver and full scholarship from Graduate School of Journalism at the University of Southern California to pursue a Master's program in Print Journalism; he received his M.A. in 1990.