Fragments Against My Ruin: A Life

About the BookA RIB-TICKLING MEMOIR BY FARRUKH DHONDY, TELEVISION CELEBRITY, WRITER, UNABASHED LEFTIST AND HOME-GROWN PARSI BOYFarrukh Dhondys stories about his friendships would themselves fill a book. From Charles Sobhraj to V.S. Naipaul, to his first wife Mala Sen, who wrote The Bandit Queen, Dhondys extensive network of acquaintances and relationships became material for his fiction. Bombay Duck, Poona Company and later novels were iconic recreations of early life in Pune and Mumbai, and he went on to be counted among the pioneering writers in English in India. In London, he became a powerful and well-known figure as the creative head of Channel 4 and was responsible for introducing breakaway brown content to English audiences.Just the thing for Dhondys old-time fans, but also for those interested in reading about a time and people lost to us in real life but close in memory.About the AuthorBorn in Poona in 1944 in a Parsi family, Dhondy moved to England and worked as an education lecturer and schoolteacher from 1968 to 1978, before entering television. As commissioning editor of multicultural programming for Channel 4 TV, UK, between 1984 and 1997, he was responsible for hundreds of hours of TV in a range of genres and helped greenlight iconic shows like Desmonds and The Bandung File.Thereafter, he worked as a freelance journalist and writer, contributing articles to Indian newspapers and magazines like The Pioneer, Asian Age and India Today. In 2002, he joined a film company based in India, Kaleidoscope International. His prolific literary output include the novel The Prophet of Love (2013), the play Devdas, which premiered in London in 2013, and a collection of translation of Rumi (2014).