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Meira Chand
Meira Chand (born 1942) is a novelist of Swiss-Indian parentage and was born and educated in London.
Life
She was born and grew up in South London.
Meira chand biography of christopher
Her mother, Norah Knoble was of Swiss origin, and her Indian father, Habans Lal Gulati came to London in 1919 to study medicine. He was Britain's first Indian GP, a pioneer of early NHS services and the Socialist Medical Association, and first Indian Labour member of the London County Council for South Battersea, standing as a parliamentary candidate.
She attended Putney High School and later studied art at St Martin's School of Art & Design and Hammersmith Art School.
In 1962, she married Kumar Chand and went with him to live in the Kobe/Osaka region of Japan.[1] In 1971, she relocated with her husband and two children to Mumbai in India but returned to Japan in 1976.
She remained in Japan until 1997, when she moved to Singapore, where she now permanently lives,[1] becoming a Singapore cit