Madhu Tandan

Madhu Tandan left Delhi in her mid-twenties with her husband to settle in a remote Himalayan ashram. Her life there, threaded by her dreams, inspired her first book, Faith & Fire: A Way Within (1997). She has since written three more, Dreams & Beyond: Finding Your Way in the Dark (2009), Hemis: A Novel (2018) and The Logic of Dreams (2022) to wide acclaim. Madhu has contributed short stories and essays to anthologies, presented papers on religious dreaming at several international conferences, including the Nouvelle Sorbonne in Paris, and Wasan Island in Canada. She was awarded a writing fellowship at Hawthornden Castle, Edinburgh. She and her husband have made the hills of Sattal their home