Kaveri Nambisan

Kaveri Nambisan is a novelist from India. She is also a surgeon who practices in rural India. Her career in medicine has been a strong influence in her fiction.

Life

Kaveri Nambisan studied medicine in St.John's Medical College, Bangalore and then studied surgery in England.

Today she works as surgeon and medical advisor at the Tata Coffee Hospital in Kodagu, Karnataka. [ [http://www.tata.com/tata_coffee/articles/20031202_coorg_diary.htm Tata Group | Tata Coffee | Coorg diary ] ] She has created several programmes for child immunisation and family planning for the rural communities. She is vocal in her critiques of urban centred health planning. [ [http://www.hindu.com/mag/2005/02/20/stories/2005022000270100.htm The Hindu : Magazine : Saving lives ... at what cost? ] ]

Early career

Kaveri Nambisan began by writing under her maiden name Kaveri Bhatt for children's magazines. She wrote stories for the now defunct children's magazine "Target". Under the name of Kaveri Bhatt she also published a novel, "The Truth About Bharat, Almost". It is the story of a rebellious young medical student who begins a cross-country road trip on his motorcycle and one of the few campus novels in Indian Writing in English. The book went out of print and was recently re-released.

Books

*The Truth About Bharat, Almost
*The Scent of Pepper
*Mango-coloured fish
*On Wings of Butterflies
*The Hills of Angheri [http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/AuthorLounge/AuthorDetail.asp]

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