Navtej Sarna studied Commerce and Law at Delhi University and joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1980. He is presently India's Ambassador to Israel and has earlier served as a diplomat in Moscow, Warsaw, Thimphu, Geneva, Tehran and Washington DC as well as most recently at Delhi as the Foreign Office Spokesperson.
Publications and writings:
"The Exile": a novel based on the life of Maharaja Duleep Singh (Penguin India,2008). Translated into Hindi (Kitabghar 2010).
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"We Weren't Lovers Like That": a novel (Penguin India,2003). Translated into Hindi (Yatra) and Arabic.
"The Book of Nanak": non-fiction (Penguin India, 2003).
"Folk Tales of Poland": non-fiction (1991).
Short stories: BBC World Service,London Magazine, several Indian journals. Included in anthologies Signals/ Signals 2 (Constable,UK), First Proof (Penguin) and New Indian Writing (Harper Collins).
Regular contributer to the Times Literary Supplement and several Indian journals.
A monthly literary column "Second Thoughts" in The Hindu since 2006.
Forthcoming projects: The Zafarnama (a translation from Persian to English of Guru Gobind Singh's letter to Aurungzeb) and a volume of short stories
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