Sanyogita Rathore

Sangita Rathore read her first romance novel at the impressionable age of thirteen in boarding school and has been hooked ever since. The next five years saw her breaking every rule in boarding school from bunking games and reading romance under the bed to hiding in her cupboard with a tiny torch to guide her through the magical story while the matron forced the others to eat inedible dinner. Sangita now lives in a dilapidated, crumbling fort atop a mountain somewhere in Rajasthan with her stubborn pet camel Mirchi who refuses to venture outside the fort into the hot desert. She spends most days reading or gossiping on her canopied terrace with a bottle of champagne and chocolate dipped fruit on the side, and the outline of the Aravalli range in the background. When she is not luxuriating, she is painstakingly carving romance stories into the dried up bark of wood to ensure tradition is preserved while her shiny new laptop begs to be used.