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Mahesh Rao

Mahesh Rao is the author of The Smoke is Rising, which won the Tata First Book Award for fiction and was shortlisted for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize and the Crossword Award. One Point Two Billion, his second book, is a critically acclaimed collection of short stories. He lives most of the year in Mysore, India.