Anindita Ghose

Anindita Ghose is an Indian author, journalist, and editor based in Mumbai. Her debut novel, The Illuminated, was published in 2021.

Biography Ghose was born in Kolkata, and brought up in Mumbai. Her father, Abhijit Ghose, headed the iconic Indian audio label Sonodyne's design lab in Mumbai.

Ghose has an MA in Linguistics from the University of Mumbai, and an MA in Arts & Culture Journalism from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She worked as a journalist at The Times of India, Mint, and Vogue India, and was editor-in-chief of Mint's Saturday magazine, Lounge.

Her debut novel The Illuminated was published in the Indian subcontinent by 4th Estate HarperCollins and by Head of Zeus (Bloomsbury) internationally in 2023. It was described by author André Aciman as ‘extraordinary’ and Peony Hirwani of The Independent picked Ghose as one of her nine best upcoming authors from India.

The Only City, an anthology of new short stories on Bombay edited by her, was published by HarperCollins in India in 2025. A review in The Tribune called it "tender, chaotic, and irresistibly sincere" and "proof that the short story still endures."

Her journalism has been published in The Guardian, The Caravan, The Hindu, Vogue, Kinfolk and Esquire.