'My father has a personal collection of over 10,000 books and if you did not read, you were considered a freak!' A die-hard aficionado of cinema and theatre, her hobbies are limited to reading - and her family. She admits the best companions for all of them were not just each other - but books.

Her childhood was spent entirely in Patna, Delhi and Pune, with her parents and two sisters. After the success of her debut novel, Karna's Wife, she opted to become a full time author. She worked for 20 years in various media houses - Magna Publications, Daily News and Analysis and The Times of India. Although, initially, she wanted to be in the administrative services, she chose a career in journalism because she wanted to write and it was the only pragmatic career option for writing. She is an alumna of Fergusson College, Pune and has completed her post graduation, both in English Literature and Mass Communication, from the University of Pune. She is an author of the new era of retelling Early life and education īorn in Mumbai, Kavita Kané grew up in other cities like Patna, Delhi and Pune. Her bestselling novel is Karna's wife: the Outcast Queen'. All of her books are based on Indian mythology.

She is known for writing Mythology- fiction. Kavita Kané (born 5 August 1966) is an Indian writer and former journalist. Author, journalist, columnist, scriptwriterįergusson College, Savitribai Phule Pune University

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