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Durjoy was born on 7th February, in Mehsana, Gujarat, a place he was there to crawl out to this world and has never been back there since. He joined his sister in the family, who was already fighting it out since three years and they moved to New Delhi soon after. At Bal Bharati Public School, Durjoy tried participating in all sorts of projects, activities, and organizations for the sole reason that his parents pushed him. After failing miserably in them and even more miserably in dating someone he buried himself in books only to come out as fat and ugly.
Once school ended, and weight loss and cosmetic experts worked nights on him, he made a conscious effort to stop indulging any kind cerebral exercise and focused his energy on how to lie to your parents, how not to get caught, how not to flunk exams and how not to get dumped. This enlightening experience and the nagging friend of his, Maanvi Ahuja, pushed him to write his first book, Of Course I Love You….Till I Find Someone Better, which was published in August 2008, and lay comfortably on the India Today bestseller list for a consecutive seventeen weeks(still counting…). He has since then harboured on the fact that he is the youngest and handsomest on the list, for he doesn’t really give credit for the book to Maanvi(his co-author), who is younger, smarter and gets all the fan mails.
His second novel, Now That You’re Rich….Let’s Fall In Love, on which he barely managed to keep his name for the editor slashed almost all the stuff that he wrote (Maanvi continues to nag in this one too) was out in stores in August 2009, exactly a year after the first book. It got it’s bestseller tag in November 2009!
In between writing, and interacting with fans which are not his, he worked a nine-to-five job at an Engineering firm, where he was held in high esteem for the photocopies he makes. But as newer technology made its’ way into the firm he had to make his way out. He has since joined Management Development Insitutute(MDI) and trying hard to cope up with smarter, younger kids.
Durjoy is now working on his third and his fourth novel simultaneously, and we will have to wait to see if he completes either. The fourth one is set in Brazil and he intends to visit the place soon. The third one is set in a prison.
Feel free to visit his blog (www.dattadurjoy.com) or email him at durjoydatta@gmail.com. He pretends he is busy. Really, he is not.
