Indrani Aikath Gyaltsen
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Indrani Aikath Gyaltsen | |
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Born | 1952 Chaibasa, Bihar, India |
Died | 1994 |
Occupation | Freelance Journalist |
Nationality | Indian |
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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.