Manoj Vaz

MANOJ (VAZ) RAMCHANDRAN

Born in the middle-class underbelly of Mumbai, it took Manoj two decades and a random IQ Test to realize that he had an IQ of 169.

He started his advertising career as a copywriter in Madison Advertising but soon realized that he was too independent to toe a line and started his own creative boutique, Touché Communications in 1991.

25 years, 50 clients, and a few awards later, he realized that writing for clients did not give him the creative satisfaction he craved.

It dawned upon him that being in a hectic, deadline ridden industry will never give him the time to follow his own dream.

He shut down his running ad agency and started writing Tinsel, a novel he had started 2 decades ago. Tinsel soon climbed up the bestseller charts.

Since there were no Indian books for the super-smart, internet and gadget savvy age group of 10 to 17 years, he started writing The Magic Chest Series.

The introductory book in the series The Kidnapping was published in May 2020 and in less than a month, this second book has been published.

Manoj also has published an original book of quotes and has his work featured in half a dozen anthologies.