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Kishwar, Lady Desai ( Rosha; formerly Ahluwalia; born 1 December 1956) is an Indian author and columnist. Her first novel, Witness the Night, won the Costa Book Award in 2010 for Best First Novel and has been translated into over 25 languages. It was also shortlisted for the Author's Club First Novel Award and longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. "No Girlhoods" . Outlook India. 5 January 2011. Retrieved 2012-07-28."Two books on India in UK literary award shortlist". The Times of India. 18 November 2010. Retrieved 2012-07-28.[2] Her novel Origins of Love, published in June 2012, was critically acclaimed. "No Girlhoods". Outlook India. 5 January 2011. Retrieved 2012-07-28. "Origins of Love". The Independent. 15 July 2012. Retrieved 2012-07-28 "Origins of Love". ABC Radio National. 11 July 2012. Retrieved 2012-07-28. The Sea of Innocence, published in 2014 in India as well as in the UK and Australia, was widely discussed as it dealt with the issue of gang rape. Desai also has a biography, Darlingji: The True Love Story of Nargis and Sunil Dutt, to her credit. "The Queen and the Commoner". India Today. 25 October 2007. Retrieved 2012-07-28.
She anchored Doordarshan's morning show, Good Morning Today, after which she took over as the CEO of Tara Punjabi TV channel, a part of Broadcast Worldwide, which was established by former Star India head, Rathikant Basu. She has written for The Guardian.
In Origins of Love
/ref> Desai took a close look at surrogacy and adoption. Simran Singh is asked to examine the case of an abandoned baby at an IVF clinic and what follows is a maze of new age fertility rites, and surrogacy. Desai's third novel in the series is The Sea of Innocence.
Prior to writing fiction, Desai wrote a probing yet affectionate biography of Nargis and Sunil Dutt, two iconic Indian film stars, in Darlingji: The True Love Story of Nargis and Sunil Dutt. The book based on interviews with the Dutt family and friends, explored their lives in detail and tells the larger story of the evolution of Hindi cinema, and of a society and a nation in the throes of change. Desai has also written a play, Manto!, based on the life of the famous Urdu writer, Saadat Hasan Manto, which won the TAG Omega Award "Sponsors beg off, it's curtains for theatre". The Indian Express. 11 June 1999. for Best Play in 1999. She was working on taking the Partition Museum forward and on a new book on Indian cinema. Desai also released a book in 2020, called The Longest Kiss which is the story of Bombay Talkies founder and actress Devika Rani. "'The Longest Kiss' sheds light on Devika Rani's life kept away from world". Malayala Manorama. 22 December 2020.
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