Indrani Aikath Gyaltsen

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name = Indrani Aikath Gyaltsen


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birthdate = 1952
birthplace = Chaibasa, Bihar, India
deathdate = 1994
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occupation = Freelance Journalist
nationality = Indian
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influences = Khushwant Singh
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Indrani Aikath Gyaltsen was a freelance journalist, who was born in Chaibasa, Bihar in 1952. She was educated in Jamshedpur before leaving India to continue her studies at Barnard College at Columbia University.

She ran a hotel and authored three novels -- "Daughters of the House", "Crane's Morning" and "Hold My Hand, I'm Dying" -- the last being published posthumously after her suicide.

Prior to her death she had been accused of plagiarizing Elizabeth Goudge's novel "The Rosemary Tree".

She is said to have been Khushwant Singh's protege.

External links

* [http://www.sawnet.org/news/aikath_gyaltsen.html Plagiarism and Mystery]