Anindita Ghose is an Indian author, journalist, and editor based in Mumbai. Her debut novel, The Illuminated, was published in 2021.
Biography Ghose was born in Kolkata, and brought up in Mumbai. Her father, Abhijit Ghose, headed the iconic Indian audio label Sonodyne's design lab in Mumbai.
Ghose has an MA in Linguistics from the University of Mumbai, and an MA in Arts & Culture Journalism from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She worked as a journalist at The Times of India, Mint, and Vogue India, and was editor-in-chief of Mint's Saturday magazine, Lounge.
Her debut novel The Illuminated was published in the Indian subcontinent by 4th Estate HarperCollins and by Head of Zeus (Bloomsbury) internationally in 2023. It was described by author André Aciman as ‘extraordinary’ and Peony Hirwani of The Independent picked Ghose as one of her nine best upcoming authors from India.
The Only City, an anthology of new short stories on Bombay edited by her, was published by HarperCollins in India in 2025. A review in The Tribune called it "tender, chaotic, and irresistibly sincere" and "proof that the short story still endures."
Her journalism has been published in The Guardian, The Caravan, The Hindu, Vogue, Kinfolk and Esquire.
Bibliography First Proof: The Penguin Book of New Writing from India 6 (anthology), India, Penguin, October 2010, The Illuminated, India, 4th Estate HarperCollins, July 2021, The Book of Dog (anthology), India, HarperCollins, January 2022, ISBN 978-9354893568 The Illuminated, United Kingdom, Head of Zeus, January 2023, The Only City edited by Anindita Ghose (anthology), India, HarperCollins, October 2025,
References
External links Interview with Jonathan Franzen (video), March 2022, Jaipur Literature Festival In conversation with Shunali Khullar Shroff (video), March 2022, Jaipur Literature Festival In conversation with Nilanjana Roy (video), August 2021, Asia Society