Naresh Fernandes is an experienced journalist and author on Indian life. Since winning the New York Foreign Press Association student award in 1997, he has gone on to work as the Bombay correspondent for Associated Press, as copy-editor on the overseas news-desk of the Wall Street Journal and then as joint news editor on The Times of India before becoming editor-in-chief of Time Out India, in charge of the Delhi and Mumbai editions. He has contributed to and edited several anthologies of new Indian writing, as well as co-authoring The Murder of the Mills - an examination of the links between Bombay’s thriving real estate business and industrial sickness in textiles factories, and providing coverage of the religious riots in When Bombay Burned. He is author of the title essay of Bombay Then and Now, a forthcoming coffee-table book.