Shovon Chowdhury was a slightly disturbed Delhi-based writer. His blog, India Update, horrified over 200,000 people. He was the creator of The Trilokpuri Incident, which was trying to understand an event that no one can remember. He was also the entire reporting staff of The Investigator, which digs for the truth, so you don’t have to. He edited the Secret Diaries of Manmohan Singh, Aged 81 3/4th. He was an alarmingly frequent contributor to Scroll.in, Swarajya, Newslaundry, the Daily O, BLink, Tehelka, and Outlook.
His first novel, The Competent Authority was a finalist for the Hindu Literary Prize 2014, Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize 2014, Crossword First Book Award, 2014, and Tata Literature Live! First Book Award 2013. It was also been the subject of two PhD theses, one creative writing course, and several unauthorized theatrical adaptations, against which he was unable to lodge FIRs due to lack of funds.