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125:. His father was a tea planter in Kerala, and his mother was a teacher. Davidar grew up in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, and both states feature prominently in his fiction. He has one sibling, Ruth Swamy, a nutritionist and dietician.
274:, which was based on his experiences as a journalist, and the outrage he felt at the communal riots that took place in India in the 1990s, was published in 2007, and was short-listed for a Commonwealth Writers Prize.
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newspaper in the 1990s. He has also written numerous articles and book reviews for newspapers and magazines in India, the UK, and the US.
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