abstract:Vikram Chandra (born 1961 in India) is an Indian-American writer. His first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, won the 1996 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book.
Vikram Seth from Vienna, Rohinton Mistry from Toronto, Amitav Ghosh from New York, Arundhati Roy from Amsterdam, VikramChandra from Bombay and the most illustrious of them all, Salman Rushdie, from his latest hideout, wherever that was.