Background
Tulika Mehrotra was born in Lucknow, state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Though she grew up in the Midwest, in Chicago, she visited India often and is fluent in Hindi.
Tulika Mehrotra was born in Lucknow, state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Though she grew up in the Midwest, in Chicago, she visited India often and is fluent in Hindi.
She finished her degree early and decided to study in the United Kingdom in the final year. After completing her degree, she lived in Paris where she briefly studied French.
Author of the novel Delhi Stopover (2012). She received her bachelor"s degree in finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign where she changed her major twice before finally settling on finance. She joined International Capital Market Association Business School at the University of Reading.
After graduation, she was accepted into the European Institute of Design (Italian: Istituto Europeo di Design) in Milan, Italy where she received her master"s degree in Fashion Design.
Tulika moved to Manhattan to work in the Garment District as a buyer. Soon eager for a change, she transitioned to media and left for Los Angeles in 2008.
Dissatisfied with her career direction, she took her father"s suggestion and started writing a book to be set in India. Her research took her on a number of trips to the country.
After almost three years of "writing, rewriting, and submitting to agents" Tulika received an offer from Penguin Books India for a two book deal.
The rights were sold to Penguin with the Writer"s Side literary agency (founded by Kanishka Gupta). After completing her book, Tulika Mehrotra delved into journalism for various fashion magazines. Since then she has written for magazines like Elle, Vogue, Grazia, India Today and Men"s Health.
She also interviewed some international celebrities (like Sofia Vergara).