Altaf Tyrewala is an Indian, English language, author. He lives in Mumbai. Altaf studied advertising and marketing in New York, he earned a BBA from Baruch College in 1995, before returning to Mumbai in 1999 to work on his critically acclaimed debut novel “No God in Sight”. The novel, published by Penguin India in 2005, has been translated into Marathi, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Dutch, and published in the US and Canada. Tyrewala’s short stories have been included in several Indian and international anthologies.
Deutsche Welle – Culture: Mumbai is ‘like a novel written by a magical element’
Mumbai is the biggest megacity in India. On the Arabian Sea, it is also India’s financial hub and thus a symbol of recent progress, however poverty is rife. Altaf Tyrewala writes about the city’s many contrasts.
“Mumbai is home,” he says. “But it is also a place which has unwittingly turned out to be the backdrop for a lot of unsettling realizations and unexpected ways in which I have grown or regressed as a person.”
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However, the young man who hails from a liberal family of Khoja Ismailis, who follow the Aga Khan, does not seem entirely at ease in his home country either. He now lives with his mother, his wife and their one-year-old son in an apartment in Byculla.
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Ismailimail 
Congratulations Altaf! Your novel adds to the richness of the growing body of Ismaili writers in English who explore themes of emigration and shifting identities in a time of change.
I look forward to reading your novel and your contemporary perspective of Mumbai.
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