The Moustache Maharishi and other Unlikely Stories

Sampurna Chattarji is a poet, novelist, translator and children's author with thirteen books to her credit. The novel Land of the Well (2012) and Selected Poems of Joy Goswami (2014)-her translation of the poet's work-were published by HarperCollins. Her books on poetry include The Scorpion (Harper21, 2013), Absent Muses (Poetrywala, 2010), The Fried Frog (Scholastic, 2009) and Sight May Strike You Blind (Sahitya Akademi, 2008). Her collection of short stories about Bombay/Mumbai, Dirty Love, was published by Penguin in 2013. Sampurna is the editor of Sweeping the Front Yard, an anthology of women's writing in English, Malayalam, Telugu and Urdu. She was the 2012 Charles Wallace writer-in-residence at the University of Kent, Canterbury.