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Vatsala Virdee
Vatsala Virdee was born in Manchester, England to parents originally from Bombay. Having grown up in the Beatles’ Britain in the swinging Sixties, and only visiting India during t...view moreVatsala Virdee was born in Manchester, England to parents originally from Bombay. Having grown up in the Beatles’ Britain in the swinging Sixties, and only visiting India during the holidays, at the age of 16 she found herself living in a remote Himalayan hill station after her parents suddenly moved back in the early 70’s.
The clash of cultures she experienced in India, particularly at boarding school in Darjeeling, inspired her first novel, Rubies and Rickshaws.
Mrs Virdee has worked with the United Nations in Switzerland since 1981 and lives in Geneva with her husband and their two children. view less