Education
Altaf studied advertising and marketing in New York, he earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Baruch College in 1995, before returning to Mumbai in 1999 to work on his critically acclaimed debut novel "Number God in Sight".
Altaf studied advertising and marketing in New York, he earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Baruch College in 1995, before returning to Mumbai in 1999 to work on his critically acclaimed debut novel "Number God in Sight".
He lives in Mumbai. The novel, published by Penguin India in 2005, has been translated into Marathi, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Dutch, and published in the United States and Canada. Tyrewala"s short stories have been included in several Indian and international anthologies. Altaf"s work has been hailed as "more sophisticated and universal than Adiga’s" by some critics.