Everything Begins Elsewhere

Tishani Doshi is a rising literary star in the UK and India, and her debut novel was enthusiastically supported by Salman Rushdie.

She has a very rich author website: www.tishanidoshi.com

In addition to writing poetry, Tishani Doshi is a columnist for The Hindo, as well as a professional dancer with the Chandralehka group.

Tishani Doshi’s TED talk on Slowness and Creativity can be found here: http://tedxpalermo.com/index.php?option=com\_content&view=article&id=110

Tishani Doshi was India’s participant during the Poetry Parnassus event during the London Olympics. Here she reads one of her poems: http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/poetry-parnassus/poets/doshi-tishani

Tishani Doshi loves cricket and writes a blog entitled Hit or Miss on Cricinfo, a cricket-related website.

Tishani is half Welsh and half Gujarati; she describes her family as a hybrid and writes often about the experience growing up in a multicultural household.