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Firdaus Kanga (Born in 1960) is an Indian writer and actor who 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 about his experiences in the United Kingdom where he met Stephen Hawking. Trying to Grow was later turned into a film, Sixth Happiness, for which Kanga wrote the screenplay, and in which he starred.
Early and personal life
Kanga is from a Parsi family.[1] He was born in 1960 in Mumbai. Until fourth grade, Kanga was tutored in home after which he joined the Campion School in Mumbai. He is 4 ft (122cm) tall and is a writer, journalist and actor in his written movie "Sixth Happiness".
He is also the author of Heaven on Wheels. He lives in London England. His nick name is Pranav
References
External links
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- Article by Kanga on the BBC website
- Sixth Happiness -- a BBC-BFI film that won the EMMA award
- Article about Kanga and his film on the website for The Independent newspaper
- Trying to Grow by Kanga -- republished in November 2008 by Penguin India
- New York Times review of Kanga's film Sixth Happiness
- Kanga in a New York Times review of history of homosexuality in Indian literary history
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- 1960 births
- Gay writers
- LGBT writers from India
- LGBT rights activists from India
- People with osteogenesis imperfecta
- British people of Parsi descent
- Living people
- Indian emigrants to England
- LGBT writers from the United Kingdom
- Writers from Mumbai
- Parsi writers
- LGBT Zoroastrians
- LGBT novelists
- Parsi people from Mumbai