Glen Peters

I'm a writer of Anglo Indian fiction with an interest in making the world aware of a vanishing tribe of people that were born out of 200 years of British colonial engagement in India. I was born in the UP in India but grew up in a railway colony near Calcutta int the late 50s and 60s. I went to a Salesian school, Don Boscos, based in a slum, which gave me a foundation in the sciences. I attended IIT in Kharagpur before my parents emigrated to London where I have lived for most of my life. I attended University in London in the 70s which was memorable. Later I worked as an engineer with British Gas and joined Price Waterhouse in the 80s where I stayed till I retired in 2010. Most of my consulting work with Price Waterhouse was in the energy sector and over the last few years I have established a rewarding renewables business. I want my grandchildren to survive the harm we're doing to this planet.

For the past 20 years I have had a love affair with Wales where my wife and I have developed an old mansion and estate into an arts centre. My interest in writing began five years ago after writing a story about an incident during my youth. Since then I've developed an interest in telling the story of the Anglo Indian community I grew up in, possibly the result of ageing and getting sentimental. The thriller genre has made my writing more accessible to a non literary readership.

Setting my books in the 1960s gives me the opportunity to think back 50 years to my youth, a time of great change in India's fledgling democracy and a nation coming to terms with its newly gained freedom. At the same time most of the members of the Anglo Indian community were leaving for the English speaking commonwealth and their numbers dwindled.

I've always regarded myself occupying a space between two very different worlds and throughout my professional career felt equally at home in the East as I did in the West. I'm sure this helped me see opportunities more clearly and understand diverse points of view.