About me
Since I won’t be getting a fancy content writer to write about me in the third person, let me tell it like it is.
I’m Andaleeb Wajid. That’s what my website is called. And a pretty narcissistic move according to my brother. Well, never mind him. Siblings will always help you stay grounded, no matter how famous you get.
I’m a writer. I wrote Kite Strings in 2005 and got it published in 2009, a good four years and 13 rejection letters later. I followed it up with Blinkers Off that I wrote in 2010 and managed to land a publisher(Rupa) within months and it was published in 2011. I kind of got a bit addicted to writing after that so I wrote four more books in quick succession, and here I am now with the word ‘prolific’ being bandied about a lot in my presence.
So, I have two books More than Just Biryani (Amaryllis) and My Brother’s Wedding (Rupa) being published in 2013. As for the other books, it’s up to my publishers, really.
One of the things that people always ask me is if I can sing. You see, my name means Nightingale in Persian. I don’t quite get the connection because, you know, you can’t be your name right? (Imagine a Deepak emitting light or a Kavita spewing poems…you get my drift)
Also, I’ll have you know that I still get addressed as Mr. Andaleeb Wajid on email because people find my name to be most androgynous. I don’t know why. I mean, do I look like a Mr. Andaleeb to you?
