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*"Venkatraman...succeeds spectacularly...an intricate yet wholly accessible story"
- Booklist, Starred Review, ISLAND'S END
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This website is a simple one that I try to update as frequently as
possible. However, most of my time, when not spent on or with my
little family at home in Rhode Island, is dedicated to writing my
novels.

At the moment, I'm busy working on my third novel. My editor is
Nancy Paulsen - a wonderful, warm and intelligent human being
with whom I feel blessed and lucky to work. I'm also very grateful to
have a lovely, supportive, and hard-working agent, Rob Weisbach.

I was born in India and grew up there. At the age of 19, I moved
abroad and came to the United States to pursue a graduate
degree in oceanography. I was the youngest, by far, at the College
of William and Mary (where I conducted my doctoral research).
There I found that although I loved mathematics and science, I
also continued to love the world of words.

I've had a most interesting life: among other things, I've spent time
diving off the coast of the Andaman Islands, worked as a
post-doctoral researcher at Johns Hopkins University's School of
Engineering, led and directed a school in England, and acted as
chief scientist on research cruises on the Baltic. But more than all
this, I love and enjoy the process of writing.

Why? Because when I create characters and conflicts, I feel a little
at least, as though, to put in in the words of the philosopher J.
Krishnamurthi, "the mind is in the heart".