Rajeev Balasubramanyam

Rajeev Balasubramanyam is the author of In Beautiful Disguises and PROFESSOR CHANDRA FOLLOWS HIS BLISS. His work has been awarded the Betty Trask Prize and the Clarissa Luard Award, and has been longlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the BBC Asia Award. His writing has appeared in Vice, The Washington Post, The Economist, London Review of Books, McSweeney’s, The Paris Review, and other publications. He also writes a blog on spirituality and race called American Pilgrimage. He is a currently a fellow of the Hemera Foundation and has been writer in residence at Crestone Zen Mountain Center and the Zen Center of New York City. He currently lives in Berlin.