Riva Razdan is the author of Arzu (Hachette India), a witty, heart-warming novel about a spunky young heiress finding her feet after heartbreak. She is a recent graduate of New York University, where she studied under novelists Tishani Doshi (The Pleasure Seekers) and Miguel Syjuco (Ilustrado). Constant relocation in her formative years made her a relentless writer — an outsider trying to make sense of an ever-changing landscape by mapping the world through the fictional journeys of her heroines. The more she moved between cultures, the more she began to examine her own north Indian upbringing. She realised that there was a lack of representation of strong-minded and ambitious millennial women who also longed for romantic fulfilment in popular Indian fiction. As a result, she decided to delve deep into the Indian society of her girlhood to weave some wayward strands of its patriarchal fabric as conflicts in her stories and create romantic-feminist fiction that encourages, supports and comforts young Indian women. Riva has studied storytelling in Paris, Florence, Abu Dhabi and New York. She currently resides in Mumbai and is a screenwriter for Anil Kapoor Films.