Kavery Nambisan is a novelist from India. She is also a surgeon who practices in rural India. Her career in medicine has been a strong influence in her fiction.Kavery Nambisan began by writing under her first married name Kavery Bhatt for children's magazines. She wrote stories for the now-defunct children's magazine Target. She also contributed to Femina and Eve's Weekly

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3. Kavery Nambisan
• Novelist from India.
• Born in Palangala village in south Kodagu, in a
family of politicians.
• Her father, C.M. Poonacha, was at one time a Union
railway minister. She spent her early years
in Madikeri.

4. Kavery Nambisan
• She studied medicine in St. John's Medical
College, Bangalore from 1965 and then studied
surgery at the University of Liverpool, England, where
she obtained the FRCS qualification.
• She worked as a surgeon in various parts of rural India
before moving to Lonavala to start a free medical centre
for migrant labourers.

5. Kavery Nambisan
• Nambisan works as surgeon and medical advisor at the Tata
Coffee Hospital in Kodagu, Karnataka, and is the Chief
Medical Officer for Tata Coffee.
• She has created several programmes for child immunisation
and family planning for the rural communities.

6. Kavery Nambisan
• She is vocal in her critiques of urban centred health
planning.
• Nambisan is married to Vijay Nambisan, a journalist
and poet.
• She has a daughter, Chetana, from an earlier marriage to
Dr K.R. Bhatt, which lasted eighteen year.

7. Kavery Nambisan
• Kavery Nambisan began by writing under her first
married name Kavery Bhatt for children's magazines.
• She wrote stories for the now defunct children's
magazine Target.
• She also contributed to Femina and Eve's Weekly.

8. • Her first book, published under the name Kavery
Bhatt, The Truth (almost) About Bharat, is the story
of a rebellious young medical student who runs away
from medical college, and begins a cross-country road
trip on his motorcycle. The book went out of print and
was recently re-released.
Kavery Nambisan

9. Kavery Nambisan
• Her second novel, The Scent of Pepper (1996) was set
in her birthplace, Kodagu and is a portrait of the life and
culture of its people, through the eyes of a family from
colonial rule to independence.
• Mango-coloured Fish (1998) concerns a woman whose
marriage has been arranged to a man she does not love.

10. • On Wings of Butterflies (2002) is set in the women's
movement in independent India and narrates the story of
a group of women entering politics.
• The Hills of Angheri (2005) draws from Nambisan's
own experiences as a doctor, tracing a young woman's
medical career.
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11. • Her sixth novel, The Story that Must Not Be Told was
shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature in
2012, as well as the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2008.
• Her seventh and most recent novel, A Town Like Ours (2014) is
an account of the lives of several people, narrated by a sex worker
living in a small town, and engages with themes of identity and
industrialisation.
Kavery Nambisan

12. • Nambisan's story Dr Sad and the Power Lunch was joint
runner-up in the third Outlook-Picador non-fiction contest in
2003.
• Kavery Nambisan was a Coorg Person of the Year in
2005.
Kavery Nambisan

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