Background
kiran Nagarkar was born in 1942 in Mumbai. He comes from a lower middle class family. Because his parents belonged to a branch of Brahmoism, which in Maharashtra was called the Prarthana Samaj, he could be said to have a hybrid background. A Westward-looking attitude towards Hinduism runs in his family; his grandfather attended the 1893 Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago. From June to November 2011 he was 'writer in residence' of the Literaturhaus Zurich and the PWG Foundation in Zurich. Nagarkar studied at Fergusson College in Pune and the S.I.E.S. College in Mumbai.
