Vikram Chandra was born in 1961 in New Delhi. He studied Film at Columbia University in New York and Creative Writing at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Houston, Texas. He teaches Creative Writing and works as a journalist and as an independent software engineer and consultant.
 His first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain (1995), won the 1996 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Overall Winner, Best First Book) and the David Higham Prize for Fiction. An epic novel set in India, the book was inspired by the autobiography of Colonel James `Sikander` Skinner, a legendary 19th-century soldier, half-Indian and half-British. Love and Longing in Bombay (1997), his second book, consists of five long stories narrated by a retired Bombay civil servant. It won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia Region, Best Book).
He co-wrote an Indian Feature Film, Mission Kashmir, released in 2000, and currently teaches Creative Writing at George Washington University.His most recent book is Sacred Games (2006), set in present day Mumbai.
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