Vikram Chandra was born in New Delhi on July 23, 1961. He comes, as he has told Kevin Mahoney in interview, from a family of writers:
My mother [Kamna Chandra] is a screenwriter who has also written for radio and television. My sister Tanuja is a screenwriter and director who has just released a Hindi film, Dushman, co-written and directed by her. My other sister, Anupama, is a film critic and journalist who writes for India Today. My father is a businessman, for which the rest of us are eternally grateful – he supported us during the lean years. (Mahoney Interview),
It is his family that Chandra considers his first audience, since it is to them that he delivers (either orally or as manuscript) the drafts of his fictions as...
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Citation: Teverson, Andrew. "Vikram Chandra". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 25 March 2002 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=817, accessed 06 December 2025.]
