Devapriya Roy

Devapriya Roy
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Author

Devapriya Roy is a Delhi-based author.

Career

Roy began her career with The Vague Woman’s Handbook, a quirky novel that was published by HarperCollins^[1][2] in March 2011 and subsequently appeared on the India Today Bestseller List.^[3]

Her second book was The Weight Loss Club: The Curious Experiments of Nancy Housing Cooperative, yet another quirky novel published by Rupa & Co.^[4] in July 2013.

Her most successful book is The Heat and Dust Project^[5][6][7][8] (along with husband Saurav Jha), that chronicles the story of travelling through India on local buses “on a very very tight budget” which debuted at no.1 on the Hindustan Times-AC Nielsen list and also got excellent reviews.^[9][10] The Heat and Dust Project is also a first-of-its-kind dynamic book as the couple used Facebook to document their journey even as it was underway.^[11][12][13]

A teaser for the sequel of The Heat and Dust Project, called Man. Woman. Road., was published in Indian Express recently.^[14]

Roy is an alumnus of Presidency College, Kolkata, and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, from where she obtained a PhD on Bharata’s Natyashastra. She completed her PhD under the supervision of award-winning poet and playwright H.S. Shivaprakash, and her co-supervisor was Prof Katia Legeret of the University of Paris VIII.^[15]

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