Nupur
Anand is a Mumbai-based journalist from Patna, Bihar. She completed her early
education from Notre Dame Academy and St. Joseph’s Convent, Patna. Literature
being her favourite subject in school, she actively participated and won
several creative writing competitions. She studied English Honours at Miranda
House, in Delhi University. Here, theatre struck a chord with her and she
joined Anukriti–the Hindi Dramatics Society as an actor and scriptwriter.
During the three years in college, she and her team bagged over 60 awards.
After post-graduation in Journalism from the Indian Institute of Journalism
& New Media, Bengaluru, she worked at Bloomberg TV, where within six
months, she became the key producer for the primetime news anchored by the channel's
Editor-In-Chief. The shows produced by her were always amongst the top-rated
shows of the channel. Eventually, she decided to shift gears and move to
print journalism. She kicked off her career with The Economic Times, where
she was a part of the team that launched India’s first personal finance
newspaper–The ET Wealth. Next, she joined DNA, where her stories regularly
made front-page news, after which she moved to Business Standard in 2014.
Currently, she is a writer with Quartz India. Mehboob Murderer is Nupur
Anand’s debut work of fiction.