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Firdaus Kanga
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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[edit]
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[edit]
- ↑ July 31; July 31, 1991 ISSUE DATE; October 14, 1991UPDATED; Ist, 2013 12:46. "Disabled writer Firdaus Kanga makes waves in London". India Today.
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External links[edit]
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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
- 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