page_title: Indra Sinha
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caption_attribution_description: English: A portrait of British author, Indra Sinha, in his garden at his house in southwest France. Sinha has written three novels, The Cybergypsies (1999), The Death of Mr Love (2002) and Animal's People (2007) (this last was shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize and is based on the aftermath of the Bhopal disaster). Formerly a leading advertising copywriter, Sinha has also translated the Kama Sutra (1980) and written books on Tantra (1993). He has done an immense amount of campaigning work for charities, including the victims of the Bhopal disaster, the Refugee Council, Amnesty International and others.
context_page_description: Indra Sinha is a British writer of Indian and English descent. Animal's People, his most recent novel, was shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize and winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Europe and South Asia.
  In July 2015, Sinha was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Literature by the University of Brighton for "his major contribution to literature and demonstrating the power of words in changing people’s lives".
context_section_description: Indra Sinha (born 1950 in Colaba, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) is a British writer of Indian and English descent.  Animal's People, his most recent novel, was shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize and winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Europe and South Asia.
  In July 2015, Sinha was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Literature by the University of Brighton for "his major contribution to literature and demonstrating the power of words in changing people’s lives".
caption: Indra Sinha in his garden in France, March 2007
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