Janhavi Acharekar

Janhavi Acharekar is a Mumbai-based writer.You can experience her work at www.janhavistories.com . She is the author of Window Seat: Rush hour stories from the city (HarperCollins 2009) and of a forthcoming travel guidebook on Mumbai and Goa for American guidebook series Moon Handbooks. She is the Charles Wallace visiting writer-in-residence at the University of Stirling, Scotland (2009).
Fiction
Window Seat: Rush hour stories from the city (HarperCollins 2009)
Like snapshots of faces in a crowd, the stories in this collection capture the fractured reality of life in India’s city of dreams. They jostle, push and straddle all things uniquely Mumbai from the local estate agent to the daily train commuters, the ad agencies to the beauty salons, the endless parties to cyberspace affairs, the live-in relationships to the ’92 riots. A colourful montage of contemporary Indian life, Window Seat brings alive the heart and soul of a city where it is always rush hour.
Janhavi’s stories also appear in other anthologies of short fiction. Her story A Good Riot was shortlisted for The Little Magazine's New Writing Award 2006. It appears in the anthology of new writing First Impressions (TLM 2006) and in Indo-Australian anthology on terror Fear Factor (Picador, 2009).
Her story Play it again, Sam! appears in Stories at the Coffee Table (Caferati 2007) and was launched at the Jaipur Literature Festival.
Travel
Moon Mumbai and Goa (November 2009)
An insider’s guide to India’s most vibrant destinations. Expected date of release - November 2009.
Janhavi has also covered the Nasik wine trail in her piece Divine Drive for the travel guidebook Driving Holidays in India (Outlook Traveller 2009) .
Her travel features have appeared in Indian and international publications including Conde Nast Traveler (UK), The Times of India, Jetwings and Man's World.
News and Reviews
Her stories and arts reviews have appeared in various publications: The Statesman, The Hindu, The Independent, The Little Magazine, among others.
Literary Curator
Janhavi has also been curator and co-curator of literary festivals in Mumbai such as the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, the Crossword Literary Festival and Celebrate Bandra.

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