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Timeri N Murari left Madras at 18 to study electronic engineering in the UK. As they were not compatible, he moved to McGill, Montreal to study history and political science. Using his experience working in a British Columbia logging camp to support his studies, he wrote an article and sent it to the great newspaper The Manchester Guardian. The paper gave his piece a full-page spread. He wrote other articles for The Guardian from Canada. Don Souter, the editor of The Kingston Whig Standard hired him as a reporter; when Don left, the new editor fired Murari “for not fitting into the (white) newsroom”.

He returned to England and continued writing for The Guardian over the next 20 years, meeting and writing profiles on Gloria Swanson, Jean Simons, Omar Sharif, Neal Simon, James Baldwin, Ian McKellen, Melina Mercouri, Count Basie, Ravi Shankar, Joe Frazier, Josephine Baker and many others. He also wrote features for The Guardian and contributed to the Sunday Times, The Observer, Nova, The New York Times, The Hindu and other publications. During those years, he played for The Guardian Cricket Club, Harold Pinter’s Gaieties Cricket Club and the Mount Street Marchers football club.

As the only Asian working on Fleet Street then, the Sunday Times commissioned him, with another reporter, to investigate allegations of extortion and exploitation among the Indian workers in Coventry. The final report did not pass the paper’s legal scrutiny. Frustrated by the rejection, Murari wrote his first novel, The Marriage based on his experiences. He moved to live in New York and wrote the documentary trilogy Only in America for Thames Television, London.

Since then he has written 14 novels in different genres-historical, romantic comedy, love story, family conflicts, political, crime, sci-fi and dystopian- which were translated into many languages; five non-fiction works; four young adult novels; and five stage plays.

He wrote and produced the LGBT script for the film, The Square Circle, (Daayra in India) which Time magazine chose as one of the top ten best films of the year 1997. “The coming of age of the young woman is limned with wit and affection.  Hats off to screenwriter Timeri Murari.” – Richard Corliss, TIME magazine. In 1999, Murari adapted and directed it for the stage for the Leicester Haymarket theatre with Parminder Nagra playing the main lead.

He returned to live in Chennai. Niyogi Books will publish his new novel, Chicanery, later this year. Two of his novels, The Arrangements of Love and The Taliban Cricket Club are optioned for films. He is working on a memoir.