Amita Kanekar is a Mumbai-based writer, whose well-received debut novel A Spoke in the Wheel was published by Harper Collins Publishers, India. Kanekar teaches comparative mythology at the University of Mumbai. She was born in Goa in 1965. She is currently (2006) working on her second novel. She has lived in the US as a child, and also teaches architectural history. Kanekar is currently researching material and travelling for her second novel, on the rebellion of a little-known peasant community in the time of the Mughal ruler of India, Aurangzeb. Kanekar's first novel about the Buddha, A Spoke in the Wheel, has earned favourable reviews. Published in 2005 by Harper Collins India, the book went into its second impression that year itself.
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Chaitanya Sambrani studied art history at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University of Baroda and the Australian National University, Canberra. He is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Art History a
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