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ShrayanaBhattacharya trained in development economics at D elhi U niversity and the H arvard Kennedy School Since 20 0 6, she has worked on research projects with the Institute of Social Studies Trust, SEWA and Centre for Policy Research on gender and labour A t present, she is a Senior Economist at the W orld Bank H er first book of non-fiction D esperately Seeking Shah Rukh : India's Lonely Young W omen and the Search for Intimacy and Independence was published by H arperCollins India in N ovember 20 21and by Liberty Books in Pakistan in A ugust 20 22. Shrayana recently won the A tta Galatta BLF Book Prize for Best N on Fiction for 20 22. She has also won the Times of India JK Paper A utH er Prize for Best N on-Fiction A uthor for 20 22 and the SKO CH Economic Forum Prize for literature