Siddhartha Krishnan

Siddhartha Krishnan is your quintessential ‘corporate guy’ from Bangalore, who took to writing after having worked in large MNCs for over a decade. Although corporate life was rewarding in its own way, he yearned to do something creative, which he later decided to satiate through short story writing.

A Keralite who grew up in the heart of Kolkata, Siddhartha’s cultural influences could not elude him. Hence, the humanistic philosophies of Satyajit Ray’s films, the mysticism in Tagore’s poetry and the Malayalam films of the 80s and 90s, showing the struggles of the common man, left a lasting impression on him. However, when it came to literature, the short story form of writing appealed to him the most, with the work of the greatest short story writers of all time—Chekov, Dostoevsky, O. Henry, Ruskin Bond and R. K. Narayan—leaving an indelible mark on his artistic leanings.

Siddhartha is also a blogger and regularly puts out his writings on his website www.whatsonsidsmind.com. Two and a Half Rainbows is his debut book.