Namita Devidayal

Namita Devidayal is the author of four books. Her most recent, published this year, is Tangerine: How to Read the Upanishads Without Giving Up Coffee. Her earlier works include the award-winning memoir The Music Room, the bestselling novel Aftertaste, and the critically acclaimed biography of the genius musician Vilayat Khan, The Sixth String.Namita is also a journalist with The Times of India and was co-director of the Times LitFest in Mumbai. A trained Hindustani classical singer, she is a graduate of Princeton University, USA.