Amulya Malladi Biography and latest books by Amulya Malladi

Amulya Malladi’s novels explore love/relationships that happen between the most unlikely people in the most unlikely situations. A sharp antithesis to the love stories that authors are penning between college friends or urban, modern couples constantly on-the-go, Amulya’s work of fiction explores complex themes and settings. She has written five novels up till now: A Breath of Fresh Air, The Mango Season, Serving Crazy with Curry, The Sound of Language and Song of the Cuckoo Bird.


Amulya Malladi was born in 1974 in Sagar, Madhya Pradesh. She pursued a Bachelor\'s Degree in Electronics Engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad and secured a Masters Degree in Journalism from the University Of Memphis, Tennessee, United States. She then moved on to working as an online editor for a high-tech publishing house in San Francisco and then as a marketing manager for a software company in the Silicon Valley.


After living in the United States for many years, Malladi shifted base to Copenhagen, Denmark with her husband Soren Rasmussen and her two sons.


Malladi\'s father was working in the Indian Army, and hence Amulya lived all over the country. At the age of 11, she lived in a world of goblins, pixies and fairies after reading and imbibing much from Enid Blyton. Amulya also wrote her first handwritten book of 50 pages.


The Sound Of Language
Is the story of an Afghan refugee Raihana, who comes to Denmark, just a few months before 9/11. In Denmark, refugees get monetary support from the government and in return, they are obligated to take Danish classes and participate in what is called praktik. Usually refugees cluster together and speak in their native language as they clean supermarkets or do other jobs of the same nature for their praktik. But Raihana finds a praktik with a beekeeper, Gunnar. Recently widowed, Gunnar is an unhappy man. He and his wife had loved their bees and now Gunnar ignores them, uncaring that they’ll die if he doesn’t pay them attention. He’s resistant to have Raihana work for him at first, but slowly she worms his way into his life and helps resurrects his love for bees and life. Gunnar in return makes Raihana leave her past behind and embrace her future. 

This is not a love story. This is a story about a unique friendship between two people who cannot communicate clearly with each other because they don’t speak the same language. 


Song Of The Cuckoo Bird
Kokila came to Tella Meda, an ashram by the Bay of Bengal, an orphan, barely a month after she was married. She was just 11 years old. Once there Kokila made a choice that altered the fabric of her life. Instead of becoming a respectable woman, a wife and mother, youthful passion and fear drove Kokila to choose to remain at Tella Meda under the care of the young and beautiful guru, Charvi.


A Breath Of Fresh Air
On December 3, 1984, Anjali waits for her husband to pick her up at the station in Bhopal. In an instant, her world changes forever. Her anger at his being late turns to horror when a catastrophic gas leak poisons the city air. Anjali miraculously survives. Her marriage does not. A smart, successful schoolteacher, Anjali is now remarried to Sandeep, a loving professor. Their lives would be nearly perfect, if not for their young son’s declining health. But when Anjali’s first husband suddenly reappears in her life, she is thrown back to the troubling days of their marriage with a force that impacts everyone around her.