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Rohan is an amateur photographer, an open water scuba diver, a mountaineer, an obsessive bibliophile, an intrepid traveller and a highly successful mutilator of the Spanish and French languages (often at the same time), a consultant in the fields of market research, client partnerships and Artificial Intelligence, an author, and more recently, a dad.
Among other hobbies, he can also lay claim to half-baked cooking attempts (no pun intended), chess, computer gaming, badminton, swimming,board gaming, indoor wall climbing, poker, adventure sports, reading fantasy novels, and a string of other very forgettable endeavours.
His first novel Keep Calm and Go Crazy - a true story of how he met his wife, was published by Harper Collins India in 2016.
His second published piece was a short horror story The School that featured in the Best Asian Speculative Fiction of 2018 anthology.


Shadows Rising is his first Urban Fantasy novel published by Westland in 2023 set in modern day Mumbai and dealing with gods and demons from Indian mythology. It was followed by a sequel Shadows Revealed that released in 2025

His fourth novel The Waking Dead releases with Penguin in 2025 and deals with South Asian folklore and horror

 
Rohan currently lives in Singapore with his wife and two kids.

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