Vijai Maheshwari

Writers bio:
Vijai Maheshwari excelled at physics in high school in Hyderabad, India and should have become an engineer like many of his classmates. Instead, he minored at Russian Studies at Columbia University in New York, moving over to high-octane Moscow in the mid-90s to work as a freelance journalist. Founder of an alternative newspaper in Moscow, consultant to Russian Playboy, and occasional DJ, he has been on the move for the last ten years, living in Berlin, Amsterdam, Tallinn and Prague, apart from Russia. His first novel is published in Russian and he is founder of B EAST Magazine, Eastern Europe's first lifestyle and fashion glossy.