Firdaus Kanga was born in 1960, an Indian writer and journalist who lives in London. He has written a novel, Trying to Grow a semi-autobiographical novel set in India and a travel book Heaven on Wheels about his experiences in the United Kingdom where he met Stephen Hawking. Trying to Grow was later turned into a film, Sixth Happiness, for which Kanga wrote the screenplay, and in which he starred.

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Firdaus Kanga
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Early and personal life

Kanga is from a Parsi family.[1] He was born in 1960 in Mumbai. Until fourth grade, Kanga was tutored in home after which he joined the Campion School in Mumbai. He is 4 ft (122 cm) tall and is a writer, journalist and actor in his written movie "Sixth Happiness" and "Cricket Or Bharatha Natyam".

He is also the author of Heaven on Wheels, Godmen, Trying To Grow. He lives in London England.

References

External links

• Firdaus Kanga biography and credits at the BFI's Screenonline
• Article by Kanga on the BBC website
• Sixth Happiness -- a BBC-BFI film that won the EMMA award
• Article about Kanga and his film on the website for The Independent newspaper
• Trying to Grow by Kanga -- republished in November 2008 by Penguin India
• New York Times review of Kanga's film Sixth Happiness
• Kanga in a New York Times review of the history of homosexuality in Indian literary history