Firdaus Kanga

Firdaus Kanga
Born1960 (age 65–66)
Mumbai
OccupationsAuthor, Journalist and, Actor.
Writing career
LanguageEnglish language Edit this on Wikidata

Firdaus Kanga, born in Mumbai 1960 to a Parsi family, is an Indian writer, journalist and actor who currently lives in London. He has written a novel Trying to Grow a semi-autobiographical novel set in India and a travel book "Heaven on Wheels", which shares about his experiences in United Kingdom where he met Stephen Hawking. A film was based on his novel Trying to Grow with the name of Sixth Happiness, where he himself played the role of a screenwriter and the lead character. Kanga was born with a rare disease called Osteogenesis imperfecta or brittle bones disease.[1][2] Scholars have examined Trying to Grow as a reflection of the Parsee community’s decline; Anjali Raman (2026) situates the novel within debates on nostalgia, secularism, and majoritarian politics in contemporary India.[3]


References

  1. ↑ "Growing up Parsi and gay in Bombay". DNA India. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
  2. ↑ "Firdaus Kanga". veethi.com. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
  3. ↑ Raman, Anjali (March–April 2026). "Longing, Loss and the Diminishing Parsee Community in Trying to Grow". International Journal of Language, Literature and Culture. 6 (2). doi:10.22161/ijllc.6.2.9.
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