Early Years
David Davidar was born in Nagercoil, Kanyakumari district in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. His father was a tea planter in Kerala and his mother was a teacher. Davidar grew up in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, and both states feature prominently in his fiction. He has one sibling, Ruth Swamy, a nutritionist and dietician.
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